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footle

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of footle

to spend time doing nothing

spent the morning footling about while others were working

Synonyms of footle

bum, chill, dally, dawdle, dillydally, drone, goof (off), hack (around), hang (around or out), hang about [British], idle, kick around, kick back, laze, lazy, loaf, loll, lounge, veg out

Words Related to footle

fiddle (around), fool, mess, monkey, muck, piddle, play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle

doze, estivate (also aestivate), hibernate

lag, linger, loiter, poke, relax, rest, tarry

amble, mosey, saunter, stroll, swan

furlough, goldbrick, malinger, truant

Phrases Synonymous with footle

kill time, twiddle one's thumbs

Near Antonyms of footle

drudge, grind, grub, hump, hustle, labor, moil, peg, plod, plow, plug, slave, sweat, toil, travail, work

apply, buckle (down)

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