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footling about

footling about is the present participle and gerund 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 footling about

What is footling about the present participle and gerund of?
Footling about is the present participle and gerund of footle about.

Words near footling about in the dictionary

  1. footlight
  2. footlighted
  3. footlights
  4. footlike
  5. footling
  6. footling about
  7. footling around
  8. footling away
  9. footlings
  10. footlit
  11. footlocker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footling 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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