| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | foo·tle |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f t l |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: foo·tled, foo·tling, foo·tles
1. Informal To waste time; trifle. 2. To talk nonsense. | | NOUN: | Nonsense; foolishness. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Probably variant of footer, to screw around, from obsolete fouter, an act of sexual intercourse, from French foutre, to have sexual intercourse, from Latin futuere. See bhau- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | footler —NOUN
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