"footle away" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: footles away [present, singular, third-person], footling away [participle, present], footled away [participle, past], footled away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} footle away (third-person singular simple present footles away, present participle footling away, simple past and past participle footled away)
  1. (colloquial, transitive) To waste (time). Tags: colloquial, transitive Synonyms: footle about (english: which, however, is intransitive)
    Sense id: en-footle_away-en-verb-aHDyigoU Categories (other): English phrasal verbs with particle (away)

Inflected forms

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