Meaning

3 senses

  1. To waste time; to trifle.

  2. To talk nonsense.

    act foolishly, as by talking nonsense

  3. (archaic, vulgar)To have sex.

Origin

Probably variant of footer (“to screw around”), from obsolete fouter (“an act of sexual in

Probably variant of footer (“to screw around”), from obsolete fouter (“an act of sexual intercourse”), from French foutre (“to have sexual intercourse”), from Latin futuere.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

footles, footling, footled, footled
Base formfootle · to footle
3rd person singularfootles
Present participlefootling
Past simplefootled
Past participlefootled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfootle
he, she, itfootles

Past simpleLesson

all personsfootled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave footled
he, she, ithas footled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill footle

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

64 synonyms
cabbageB1idleC2lampA2lingerB2loafB1loiterC2whileA2babbleC2arse aboutarse aroundbludgebum aroundclown arounddally
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words
Derivedfootle aboutfootle aroundfootle awayfootler

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
footbridgefoothillfootholdfootingfootnoteB2footpathfootprint
footle — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto