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footle about

footle about verb: to pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.

Verb

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

  1. To pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.

Synonyms of footle about

Forms of footle about

third-person singular presentfootles about
present participlefootling about
past participlefootled about
pastfootled about

Questions about footle about

What does footle about mean?
Footle about means to pass time doing unimportant things; to mess around.
What part of speech is footle about?
Footle about is a verb.
What is the past tense of footle about?
The past tense of footle about is footled about.

Words near footle about in the dictionary

  1. footkisser
  2. footkissers
  3. footlambert
  4. footlamberts
  5. footle
  6. footle about
  7. footle around
  8. footle away
  9. footled
  10. footled about
  11. footled around

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