Footle

Verb. To Footle. Footling is voluntarily undertaking a work type task in your own leisure time but in a half arsed or at least, unproductive, way. Footling is enjoyable to the footler, a bit like pottering. Pottering is normally done in a home or leisure environment, where as footling is undertaken in a work environment.

Footle is often used in a derogatory sense to indicate someone is doing a piss poor job of something, or to communicate the lack of importance of a particular job.

"Nevermind painting that, stop footling about and put the fucking fence up"

"Hey dude, what you up to?
Nuthin man, just footling about with these exhausts."

"Dude, did you footle that, or just fuck it up totally?"

by DMIG October 27, 2011

Footle

A foot which has formed into a turtle. Turtle feet

'Omy my foot has turned into a footle'

by Hollieinit October 9, 2008

Footles

Handles on the bottom of doors that let you open the door with a foot.

Thornton's gas station is the first place I saw footles in use.

by Kjahnke812 July 16, 2021

Footling

The sexual act of pleasing your self with a Subway $5 footlong

Guy 1: Hey, can i borrow five bucks? I'm gonna get a footling from Subway.
Guy 2: You mean a footlong?

Guy 1: No... I mean a footling

by piehumper January 17, 2014

Footle

To waste time doing things that are not important or necessary.

Stop footle with these books and do your homework.

by Teacher Alfenas January 24, 2017