See also: föotle

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Etymology [ edit ]

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.

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

To waste time; to trifle. To talk nonsense.

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( waste time ) : see Thesaurus:loiter

see Thesaurus:loiter ( talk nonsense ) : babble jabber

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Translations [ edit ]

To talk nonsense Bulgarian: говоря глупости ( govorja gluposti )

Noun [ edit ]

footle (uncountable)

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