footle

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.

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

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

1. To waste time; to trifle.
2. To talk nonsense.

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

• footler

footle (uncountable)

1. nonsense; foolishness.

• See Thesaurus:nonsense