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Origin and Etymology of fooster
Irish Gaelic fūstar
Definition of fooster
-ed/-ing/-s
chiefly Irish
: to bustle around : fluster;
especially
: to waste time by fussing and chattering
- you can't expect children to concentrate when everybody's gabbling and foostering around them
- —Michael McLaverty
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