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Definition of 'footling'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (Informal.) footling
foolish; silly:
a footling amateur.

2. footling
trifling; trivial:
a footling remark.

Etymology: (1895–1900; footle+-ing²)

Definition of 'footling'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
(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"

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