Usage of "footle" | TermGallery

португальский

каталонский

Be about.

Usage of footle in английском

Think of the people to whom your bottles of footle go! 
 Tono-Bungay 

I can't stand his 'Theatre'-that'sfootle-butthe big things-'LePere Goriot,' 'La Cousine Bette,' 'Cesar Birotteau'-what a great book 'Cesar Birotteau' is!- 
 The Fortunate Youth 

And redolent of footle; 
 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 

She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it. 
 All Roads Lead to Calvary 

I'm not such an ass as to fall off a footling balcony. 
 Jaffery 

For these two years, therefore, C na T has spent its time footling. 
 The Irish Times 

And you refuse your footling little insignificant self. 
 Jaffery 

But I've only paid those footling little bills. 
 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920 

Need we go on footling about it? 
 Overruled 

For anything simpler than distributing a few footling books to a bunch of grimy-faced kids I can't imagine. 
 Right Ho, Jeeves 

(I'm calling it footle, Ponderevo, out of praise, he said in parenthesis.) 
 Tono-Bungay 

He said that all them footling little beasts were a-listening to 'em, and they told him all about it. 
 The Fortunate Youth 

Mr. Lunn is footling. 
 Overruled 

Footling people, you mean. 
 Heartbreak House 

"I wouldn't lose this day at Pompeii for a shipload of footling schoolmasters." 
 Captivity 

It would hurt horribly to do so, but would a man sacrifice everything on account of some footling argument about a street? 
 The Best British Short Stories of 1922 

Translations for footle

португальский

permanecer ficar

каталонский

voltar demorar-se dropejar entretenir-se pul·lular

Footle through the time

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Meanings of footle in английском