FOOTLING

fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial

(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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

footling (comparative more footling, superlative most footling)

trivial, silly and irritating.

Verb

footling

present participle of footle

Etymology 2

Noun

footling (plural footlings)

A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its foot will emerge first. A type of breech birth.

Source: Wiktionary



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