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footle away

footle away verb: to waste (time).

Verb

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

  1. (colloquial, transitive) To waste (time).
    • You've just footled away twenty minutes!
    Synonyms:
    footle about

Synonyms of footle away

Forms of footle away

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

Questions about footle away

What does footle away mean?
Footle away means to waste (time).
What part of speech is footle away?
Footle away is a verb.
What is the past tense of footle away?
The past tense of footle away is footled away.

Words near footle away in the dictionary

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

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