英语词典 · 单词释义
footle
英 ['fuːt(ə)l] 美
这里集中整理“footle”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
单词速览
词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- vi. 做笨事；说呆话；浪费时间
- n. 呆话；傻事
- adj. 无价值的；不重要的
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
第三人称单数: footles;过去式: footled;过去分词: footled;现在分词: footling;
中文词源
footle 闲混
词源不详。可能来自foot, 脚。-le,表反复。即走来走去，闲混。
英文词源
- 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.).
双语例句
- 1. I wish he would not footle about so much.
- 我希望他不要这样混日子.
来自《简明英汉词典》