Footle

"footle," in the business of advertising he developed a curious literary twist. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

This is not a major refit, just an up-gun of GURPS Horror, 3rd Ed. to the GURPS 4E rules, but I have been granted 16 or so more pages to footle around in. ❋ Princeofcairo (2008)

'If you sit down and listen in any moderately lucid state of mind the impression you have is of an old man muttering and ranting on in the aural foreground, while some young lads, engaged on some completely unrelated project, footle around with the controls on a mixing desk in the next room' ❋ Unknown (1998)

Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays, and all the rest of it? ❋ Frederick Swainson (N/A)

"I suppose you'll just footle, then," his friend had summed it up, and left him, because it was half-past six, and they had dinner at that strange hour. ❋ Rose Macaulay (1919)

(I'm calling it footle, Ponderevo, out of praise, "he said in parenthesis.)" Think of the little clerks and jaded women and overworked people. ❋ Unknown (1906)

I can't stand his 'Theatre' -- that's footle -- but the big things -- 'Le Pere Goriot,' 'La Cousine Bette,' ❋ William John Locke (1896)

For the last fourteen years the bulk of policy debate has been not about how we address the organic issues facing an economy and society like that of the UK, but how we footle around at the edges of it, creating projects that may, tangentially, affect someone somewhere, but in all probability not. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Not only that, but the sort of things he would say in his sleep would be things like, "The opening up of trade routes to the mumble mumble burble was the turning point for the growth of empire in the snore footle mumble. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 (1987)

I've heard that footle before, "said Cotton, with his heavy selfishness. ❋ Frederick Swainson (N/A)

I can't stand his 'Théâtre' -- that's footle-but the big things -- 'Le Père Goriot,' 'La Cousine Bette,' 'César Birotteau' -- what a great book 'César Birotteau' is! -- " ❋ Unknown (1914)

"Think of the people to whom your bottles of footle go! ❋ Unknown (1906)

"Looking at me through the footle, distorted little microscope of their own silly scrubby little souls! ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)

"Nevermind painting that, stop [footling] about and put the fucking fence up" "Hey dude, what you up to? Nuthin man, just footling about with these exhausts." "Dude, did you [footle] that, or just [fuck it up] totally?" ❋ DMIG (2011)

[Thornton's] [gas station] is the first place I saw [footles] in use. ❋ Kjahnke812 (2021)

Guy 1: Hey, can i borrow [five bucks]? I'm gonna get a [footling] from Subway. Guy 2: You mean a [footlong]? Guy 1: No... I mean a footling ❋ Piehumper (2014)

'Omy [my foot] has [turned] into a footle' ❋ Hollieinit (2008)

Stop [footle] with these [books] and do your [homework]. ❋ Teacher Alfenas (2017)