verb
- to engage in fruitless or trivial activity; to waste time on unimportant matters
Usage: informal; usually followed by 'around' or 'with'
Examples
- Stop footling around and finish your homework.
- He spent the afternoon footling with his old guitar instead of studying.
- Don't footle away your time on social media.
- She was footling about in the garage, looking for old tools.
- They footled with the broken clock but never managed to fix it.
- I've been footling around trying to get this software to work.