Etymology

footle

foo·tle
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Today it means: To waste time; to trifle. Full definition →

French foutre ← Latin futuere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromfutuere
  2. French · derived fromfoutre“to have sexual intercourse”
  3. English todayfootle

Probably variant of footer (“to screw around”), from obsolete fouter (“an act of sexual intercourse”), from French foutre (“to have sexual intercourse”), from Latin futuere.

Words from the same roots

Frenchfoutre all →

footerfutter

Latinfutuere all →

footer

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.