footle

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

enPR: fo͞otəl, IPA^(key): /fuːtəl/
Rhymes: -uːtəl

Verb

footle (third-person singular simple present footles, present participle footling, simple past and past participle footled)

To waste time; to trifle.
To talk nonsense.

Synonyms

(waste time): see Thesaurus:loiter
(talk nonsense): babble, jabber

Derived terms

footler

Translations

To talk nonsense

Bulgarian: говоря глупости (govorja gluposti)

Noun

footle (uncountable)

nonsense; foolishness.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:nonsense

Translations

nonsense;foolishness

Bulgarian: глупост (bg) f (glupost), безсмислица (bg) f (bezsmislica)

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