footle
Meaning of footle
verb
- engage in fruitless activity; mess about.
where's that pesky creature that was footling about outside?
late 19th century: perhaps from dialect footer ‘idle, potter about’, from 16th-century foutre ‘worthless thing’, from Old French, literally ‘have sexual intercourse with’.
Information about footle
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of footle is: footles.
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Hyphenation of footle
foo-tle
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- footle is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
footle synonyms
Meaning loiter:
loiter, lounge, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, tarry, linger, lurk
Words that rhyme with footle
Bootle, bootle, rootle, tootle, chipotle, Aristotle, aristotle
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