footle

How To Use footle In A Sentence

• For the next 45 minutes, the girls and I footle about in the kiddie park, playing tag, and hide-and-seek, and find-the-cicada.
• 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. The Lee Shore
• Models in Veronica Lake hairdos strutted confidently down the runaway in armoured jackets and darted skirts over ribbed cashmere footless stockings and stiletto pumps.
• They bustled along talking to their invisible friends, or stood abstracted on the kerb the fingers of one hand fiddling away in the palm of the other, or, like iAnna footled fanatically with a filmy square-foot. The Guardian World News
• (I'm calling it footle, Ponderevo, out of praise, "he said in parenthesis.)" Think of the little clerks and jaded women and overworked people. Tono Bungay
• They learnt to take themes which did not sound exactly like the subjects of a fugue; they laid out their first and their second, and then they did not know what on earth to do, and footled and stumbled till it was time for the recapitulation; so that Haydn himself said the worst of the young men was that they could not stick long enough at anything to work it out, and no sooner began one thing than they wanted to be off to another. Haydn
• Then there is: "A novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot. Such, Such Was Eric Blair
• In footless traverse through ghast heights of sky, 5 "In Vision I Roamed"
• Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, bucked conventional wisdom when she approached hosiery mills with the idea of manufacturing footless pantyhose. Matt Wilson: Three Steps to Gain a Competitive Advantage
• Thus we see that in the Synaptidae the thick and irregular calcareous bodies of the Holothurians have been modified and transformed in various ways in adaptation to the footlessness of these animals, and to the peculiar conditions of their life, and we must conclude that the earlier stages of these changes presented themselves to the processes of selection in the form of microscopic variations. Evolution in Modern Thought