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footle around

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

Verb

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

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

Synonyms of footle around

Forms of footle around

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

Questions about footle around

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

Words near footle around in the dictionary

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

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