Word for the Day, Monday, July 30, 2012-- footle

7/30/12 | xs

[xsmommy]

Word For The Day, Monday, 7/30/12

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

footle; noun/verb

1. nonsense; foolishness; silliness. 2. to act or talk in a foolish or silly way.

Etymology: "to trifle," 1892, from dial. footer "to trifle," footy "mean, paltry" (1752), probably from Fr. se foutre "to care nothing," from O.Fr. foutre "to fuck," from L. futuere, originally "to strike, thrust" (cf. confute). But O.E.D. derives the Eng. dial. words from foughty (1600), from Du. vochtig or Dan

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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[xsmommy]

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

Here is my example with WFTD.

The feckless Administration has footle foibles. Tom Donilon is a MAJOR disaster as NSC chief. As well as being the WH leaker, per Pat Caddell.

Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

No pushing at the door please!

[xsmommy]

Back from vaca. i hate days like these!

[rockabyebaby]

HUSSEIN = footle.

[xsmommy]

a feckless, footling fool A+++

[left that other site]

Foil the Footle of the Fanatics.

Eat at Chick-Fil-A!

[Doogle]

"..I know I know. If you run too fast, sometimes your footle get caught in da carpet when cutting around furniture. But that was when I ran doing anything"

[xsmommy]

DEFINITELY eating there on Weds!! my SIL helpfully sent me the calorie count on the peach shake [800 cals!!!!] so i am going to stick to the diet lemonade, which is GREAT and def doesn’t even taste diet [i can’t drink diet soda, i generally drink the flavored club soda, bc i hate the taste of diet drinks]

[left that other site]

The diet lemonade is quite nice. No need to get a shake! :-)

[xsmommy]

you look so comfy there, i wish i was home doing that! A+++

[ConorMacNessa]

If we're subjected to much more of the incessant footling of this benighted Regime, we'll be scrod, down the river without an oar, and FUBAR, or as they used to say in Francais, tres foutre!!　



Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[xsmommy]

have you had their shakes though? they are soooooo GOOD! peach in the summer, their banana pudding/vanilla wafer one is also excellent and the chocolate candy/cane one at Christmas is extremely good too. I am not a milkshake person generally, never get them anywhere else, but the special seasonal ones they do are worth giving up a MEAL for!

[left that other site]

Ooooo...That sounds GOOOOODDDD!!!!!

[xsmommy]

okay you win the prize for first to notice that in the etymology! i died when i saw it! A++++

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Sorry - we all know saying goodbye to the cabana boy is rough...

[ClearCase_guy]

I can’t take seriously any footle from Dick Morris.

[xsmommy]

parting IS such sweet sorrow ; )

[xsmommy]

especially when you remember that the footle has prob been in his mouth... ; ) A+++ i know, too gross for 8 am!

[afraidfortherepublic]

The footle spewing on Fox & Friends this morning caused me to switch to a re-run of Matlock: the University of Colorado psychiatrist allegedly treating the “Joker” maniac killer was disciplined in 2004 for prescribing medications for herself and for giving herself injections to enlarge her breasts in the 1990s.

[xsmommy]

and that’s relevant how??? A+++

[xsmommy]

i have to tell you that the variance between TSA agents at different airports is pretty striking. At Reagan National, on our way down to FL, i had to wait several long minutes for a “female” to do the pat-down [scanner was broken, and i have metal parts, so i always require a pat-down] and when the extremely dykey black TSA woman finally ambled up to do the pat-down she told me to CALM DOWN [OMG i nearly bit through my tongue not to tell her off]. On the way back from Jacksonville on Saturday, the guy wished me a happy belated bday when checking my ticket against my drivers license [it had been the previous day]!! and the rest of them were extremely pleasant and courteous and downright friendly.