footle

• vi. 做笨事；说呆话；浪费时间
• n. 呆话；傻事
• adj. 无价值的；不重要的

词态变化

中文词源

词源不详。可能来自foot, 脚。-le,表反复。即走来走去，闲混。

英文词源

footle

footle: [19] Footling appears to have originated as a euphemistic equivalent to fucking. It probably comes from a dialectal footer ‘mess about, fuck around’, which may well have been acquired from French foutre ‘copulate with’, a descendant of Latin futuere ‘copulate with’ (whose origin is not known).

footle (v.)

"to trifle," 1892, from dialectal footer "to trifle," footy "mean, paltry" (1752), perhaps from French se foutre "to care nothing," from Old French futer "to copulate with," from Latin futuere "have sex," originally "to strike, thrust" (see confute). But OED derives the English dialect words from foughty (c. 1600), from Dutch vochtig or Danish fugtig "damp, musty;" related to fog (n.).

双语例句

1. I wish he would not footle about so much.

我希望他不要这样混日子.

来自《简明英汉词典》