footleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: fo͞otəl, IPA: /ˈfuːtəl/
• 韻: -uːtəl
• ハイフネーション: foo‧tle

動詞

footle (third-person singular simple present footles, present participle footling, simple past and past participle footled)

1. To waste time; to trifle.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:loiter

   • 2021 January 28, Sam Knight, “Adam Curtis Explains It All”, in The New Yorker‎:

     Curtis says that he works like any other journalist: people and ideas grab him; he wastes time on TikTok, which he adores; he footles about in libraries.

2. To talk nonsense.

   Synonyms: babble, jabber

3. (archaic, vulgar) to have sex

派生語

名詞

footle (uncountable)

1. nonsense; foolishness.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:nonsense