verb
- to act or talk in a foolish or trivial way; to waste time on unimportant matters
Usage: informal; chiefly British
Examples
- Stop footling around and get to work.
- He spent the morning footling with his computer instead of finishing the report.
- Don’t footle about with those details now.
- She was footling in the garden when she should have been studying.
- The committee footled for hours without making any real decisions.
- I can’t afford to footle away any more time on this project.