footle
英 ['fu?t(?)l]
美
- vi. 做笨事；說呆話；浪費時間
- n. 呆話；傻事
- adj. 無價值的；不重要的
GRE
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?footles;過去式:?footled;過去分詞:?footled;現在分詞:?footling;
中文詞源
footle 閑混
詞源不詳。可能來自foot, 腳。-le,表反復。即走來走去，閑混。
英文詞源
- footle
- footle: [19] Footling appears to have originated as a euphemistic equivalent to fucking. It probably comes from a dialectal footer ‘mess about, fuck around’, which may well have been acquired from French foutre ‘copulate with’, a descendant of Latin futuere ‘copulate with’ (whose origin is not known).
- footle (v.)
- "to trifle," 1892, from dialectal footer "to trifle," footy "mean, paltry" (1752), perhaps from French se foutre "to care nothing," from Old French futer "to copulate with," from Latin futuere "have sex," originally "to strike, thrust" (see confute). But OED derives the English dialect words from foughty (c. 1600), from Dutch vochtig or Danish fugtig "damp, musty;" related to fog (n.).
雙語例句
- 1. I wish he would not footle about so much.
- 我希望他不要這樣混日子.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》