Footle vs Foozle - What's the difference?
footle | foozle |
To waste time; to trifle.
To talk nonsense.
nonsense; foolishness.
To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.
* 1921 Oct. 2, "
* , Humor and Fantasy :
A fogey.
* 1838 , Denis Ignatius Moriarty, The Wife Hunter :
A mistaken shot in golf
* 1923 , , Odd Fish :
As verbs the difference between footle and foozle
is that footle is to waste time; to trifle while foozle is to do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle.As nouns the difference between footle and foozle
is that footle is nonsense; foolishness while foozle is a fogey.footle
English
Verb
(footl)Synonyms
* hang around * lallygag * loiter * lollygag * mess about * mill about * mill around * tarry * lounge * lurk * linger * loafDerived terms
* footlerNoun
(-)foozle
English
Verb
(foozl)One-handed drivers menace to public," Vancouver Sun (Canada), p. 17 (retrieved 30 Aug. 2011):
- Every baseball fan is acquainted with the sarcastic reminder, "two hands are the fashion nowadays," often hurled at the infielder who foozles an attempt at a grandstand play in the form of a one-handed catch.
- I wouldn't have trusted dear old Monty to break the death of a bluebottle without managing to foozle it somehow.
Noun
(en noun)- There is an old foozle of a lord, the earl of Ballyduff, who lives in London, and who is determined on nominating to his vacant borough
- Even poor Mr. Lloyd George cannot go out of his front door, or make a foozle on the ninth green, without being snapshotted, sketched, and probably filmed.