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footled about

footled about is the simple past and past participle of footle about.

Meaning of footle about

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.

Questions about footled about

What is footled about the simple past and past participle of?
Footled about is the simple past and past participle of footle about.

Words near footled about in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footled about (page history and authors); footle about (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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