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FOOTLE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Act foolishly, as by talking nonsense

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "footle" is one way to...):

act; behave; do (behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be about

Example:

Who is this man that is hanging around the department?

Synonyms:

footle; hang around; lallygag; linger; loaf; loiter; lollygag; lounge; lurk; mess about; mill about; mill around; tarry

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "footle" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "footle"):

lurch; prowl (loiter about, with no apparent aim)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

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