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footling away

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

Meaning of footle away

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

Questions about footling away

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

Words near footling away in the dictionary

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

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