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third-person singular simple present footles, present participle footling, simple past and past participle footled
To waste time; to trifle. quotations examples
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.
2021 January 28, Sam Knight, “Adam Curtis Explains It All”, in The New Yorker
To talk nonsense. examples
uncountable
nonsense; foolishness. examples