"footle," in the business of advertising he developed a curious literary twist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hocken and Hunken] Reference

Permission to footle in the lab. on half-holidays, and all the rest of it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference

This is not a major refit, just an up-gun of GURPS Horror, 3rd Ed. to the GURPS 4E rules, but I have been granted 16 or so more pages to footle around in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference

'If you sit down and listen in any moderately lucid state of mind the impression you have is of an old man muttering and ranting on in the aural foreground, while some young lads, engaged on some completely unrelated project, footle around with the controls on a mixing desk in the next room'.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - the punk foot of nose] Reference

I can't stand his 'Theatre' -- that's footle -- but the big things -- 'Le Pere Goriot,' 'La Cousine Bette,'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunate Youth] Reference

(I'm calling it footle, Ponderevo, out of praise, "he said in parenthesis.)" Think of the little clerks and jaded women and overworked people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tono Bungay] Reference

"I suppose you'll just footle, then," his friend had summed it up, and left him, because it was half-past six, and they had dinner at that strange hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lee Shore] Reference

For the last fourteen years the bulk of policy debate has been not about how we address the organic issues facing an economy and society like that of the UK, but how we footle around at the edges of it, creating projects that may, tangentially, affect someone somewhere, but in all probability not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts & Ecology blog] Reference

"Looking at me through the footle, distorted little microscope of their own silly scrubby little souls!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ptomaine Street] Reference

I can't stand his 'Théâtre' -- that's footle-but the big things -- 'Le Père Goriot,' 'La Cousine Bette,' 'César Birotteau' -- what a great book 'César Birotteau' is! -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunate Youth] Reference

Not only that, but the sort of things he would say in his sleep would be things like, "The opening up of trade routes to the mumble mumble burble was the turning point for the growth of empire in the snore footle mumble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]

March 15th, 2006 at 6: 20 am footle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amazon: Grid Storage Web Service Launches] Reference

And redolent of footle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917] Reference

A footle, twaddly love affair!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ptomaine Street] Reference

They always will footle in this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference

Of course, he would just footle; he always had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lee Shore] Reference

"All right, footle, then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acton's Feud A Public School Story] Reference