Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
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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