footle
英 ['fu?t(?)l]
美
- vi. 做笨事；說(shuō)呆話；浪費(fèi)時(shí)間
- n. 呆話；傻事
- adj. 無(wú)價(jià)值的；不重要的
GRE
詞態(tài)變化
第三人稱單數(shù):?footles;過(guò)去式:?footled;過(guò)去分詞:?footled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?footling;
中文詞源
footle 閑混
詞源不詳。可能來(lái)自foot, 腳。-le,表反復(fù)。即走來(lái)走去，閑混。
英文詞源
- 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.).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. I wish he would not footle about so much.
- 我希望他不要這樣混日子.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》