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FOOTLE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they footle ... he / she / it footles
Past simple: footled
Past participle: footled
-ing form: footling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "footle" is one way to...):
act; behave; do (behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Be about
Example:
Who is this man that is hanging around the department?
Synonyms:
footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lounge; lurk; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "footle" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "footle"):
lurch; prowl (loiter about, with no apparent aim)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
