Footle

Definition: Footle

Footle

Verb

1. Be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?".

2. Act foolishly, as by talking nonsense.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Footle

Albanian

vërtitem kot, gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), dokrra (balderdash, drivel, drool, flummery, moonshine, poppycock), bëj si budalla (caper about, fool about, fool around). (various references)

Bulgarian 

щурея, говоря глупости (blah blah, blather, bleat, blether), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), върша глупости, брътвеж (babble, chat, palaver, prate, prattle, quack, rigmarole, wash). (various references)

French

fadaises. (various references)

Greek 

χαζολογάω. (various references)

Hungarian

feleslegesen tesz-vesz (to footle about), ostobaságokkal tölti idejét. (various references)

Italian

nonsenso (absurdism, nonsense). (various references)

Manx

flustyrnee (fad, niggle, potter, pottering). (various references)

Pig Latin

ootlefay.(various references)

Portuguese

fazer patetices, ocupar-se com ninharias. (various references)

Russian 

ерунда (apple sauce, codswallop, hog-wash, hooey, jiggery-pokery, playgame, tosh, tripe), болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, gab, gammon, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), дурить. (various references)

Spanish

pisar (back up, collar, enter, nobble, press, push, set foot, step, trample, tread, tread down, wend one's way), pamema (absurdism, nonsense). (various references)

Swedish

larva sig (fool). (various references)

Turkish

saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), oyalanmak (amuse oneself, be amused, be pleased with, dally, delay, dilly dally, disport oneself, fool, fool about, fool around, fribble, frivol, hang out, linger, loiter, mess around, monkey around, piddle, play around, Potter, potter about, potter at, procrastinate, stay, Tarry, trifle, trifle with, waste time), boşa harcamak (cast away, chuck away, dissipate, fling away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, idle, idle away, lavish, misapply, misspend, pass away, pour down the drain, scatter, squander, squander away, throw away, throw to the dogs, trifle away, waste), aylaklık etmek (arse around, bum, bum around, dawdle, fiddle, fiddle about, fiddle around, frig, loaf, loaf about, loaf around, not to work), aptallık (crime, fatuity, floater, Folly, foolery, fooling, foolishness, hebetude, idiocy, ineptitude, silliness, stupidity), aptalca konuşmak, ahmaklık (crassness, density, fooling, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, stupidity). (various references)

Ukrainian

базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), пустувати (caper, fool about, piddle, roil, rollick, skylark). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "footle": footled, footler, footlers, footles, footless, footlessly, footlessness, footlessnesses. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: felt, floe, fool, foot, left, loft, loof, loot, oleo, tole, tool.

-3 letters: eft, elf, fet, foe, let, loo, lot, oft, ole, oot, tel, toe, too.

-4 letters: ef, el, et, lo, oe, of, to.

+1 letter: footled, footler, footles.

+2 letters: fetology, folkmote, footlers, footless, footlike, foretold, foveolet.

+3 letters: floodgate, flowerpot, flowstone, folkmotes, footloose, foveolets, outflowed, outfooled.

+4 letters: clubfooted, defoliator, fetologies, fetologist, flatfooted, floodgates, floodwater, flowerpots, flowstones, foolishest, footballer, footlessly, footlocker, forlornest, tomfoolery, toploftier, waterflood.

+5 letters: bulletproof, comfortable, comfortless, counterflow, counterfoil, defloration, defoliation, defoliators, electroform, exfoliation, fetologists, floodwaters, fluorometer, fluorometry, footballers, footfaulted, footlambert, footlockers, footslogged, footslogger, foulmouthed, frontolyses, loosestrife, profiterole, splayfooted, teaspoonful, toploftiest, waterfloods.