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footling around

footling around is the present participle and gerund of footle around.

Meaning of footle 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.

Questions about footling around

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

Words near footling around in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: footling around (page history and authors); footle around (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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