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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of footle.

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Examples

  • It's bad enough with professional photographers in studios (and believe me, it really is bad enough, I loathe the experience), but to have to freeze the face into something akin to a smile time after time after time while the bewildered operator footles uselessly about with the tiny little tits that pass for buttons and switches.

    More Suck Than Blow: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Does they ought to buy the papelboy when he footles up their suit?

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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