Associations to the word «Footling»
Wiktionary
FOOTLING, adjective. Trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating.
FOOTLING, verb. Present participle of footle
FOOTLING, noun. A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.
Dictionary definition
FOOTLING, adjective. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction".
Wise words
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