footle

Other forms of footle

past tense

footled·

present participle

footling·

third person

footles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about footle

What does footle mean?

footle means "be about". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in footle?

footle has 2 syllables: foo-tle. The stress falls on "tle".

What is another word for footle?

Close synonyms include loiter, lounge, lollygag, loaf, lallygag. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is footle a common word?

footle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.