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footering

footering is the present participle and gerund of footer.

Meaning of footer

Verb

footer (third-person singular simple present footers, present participle footering, simple past and past participle footered)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, slang) To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.

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Questions about footering

What is footering the present participle and gerund of?
Footering is the present participle and gerund of footer.

Words near footering in the dictionary

  1. footed the bill
  2. footed up
  3. footedness
  4. footer
  5. footered
  6. footering
  7. footers
  8. footest
  9. footeth
  10. footfag
  11. footfall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footering (page history and authors); footer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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