footle
pronunciation
How to pronounce footle in British English:
UK ['fu:tl]
How to pronounce footle in American English:
US [ˈfutl]
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- Verb:
- be about
- act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
Word Origin
- footle
- footle: [19] Footling appears to have originated as a euphemistic equivalent to fucking. It probably comes from a dialectal footer ‘mess about, fuck around’, which may well have been acquired from French foutre ‘copulate with’, a descendant of Latin futuere ‘copulate with’ (whose origin is not known).
- footle (v.)
- "to trifle," 1892, from dialectal footer "to trifle," footy "mean, paltry" (1752), perhaps from French se foutre "to care nothing," from Old French futer "to copulate with," from Latin futuere "have sex," originally "to strike, thrust" (see confute). But OED derives the English dialect words from foughty (c. 1600), from Dutch vochtig or Danish fugtig "damp, musty;" related to fog (n.).
Example
- 1. I wish he would not footle about so much .
- 2. My friendly mouth is stupid very , often say the footle that a few your people find both funny and annoying .
- 3. A jiang 's mouth is stupid very , often say the footle that a few your people find both funny and annoying .
- 4. At the same time , as for art , if we say the language of nietzsche 's aesthetics is an intoxicating language , post ? Modern 's language about art is footle .