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Footling

adjective
1.
(informal) small and of little importance.  Synonyms: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial.  "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"


Footle

verb
1.
Be about.  Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry.  "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
2.
Act foolishly, as by talking nonsense.





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"Footling" Quotes from Famous Books



... emotionalism—of your early life? Well, it was that sort of shuddering that came over Florence at the thought that she had surrendered to such a low fellow. I don't know that she need have shuddered. It was her footling old uncle's work; he ought never to have taken those two round the world together and shut himself up in his cabin for the greater part of the time. Anyhow, I am convinced that the sight of Mr Bagshawe and ...
— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford
... old name, which does as well. I do not hesitate to say that all our best lecturers have two or three old lectures at the back of every single point in their best new speeches; and this means that they have spent a certain number of years plodding away at footling little meetings and dull discussions, doggedly placing these before all private engagements, however tempting. A man's Socialistic acquisitiveness must be keen enough to make him actually prefer spending two or three nights a week in speaking and debating, or in picking up social ...
— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease
... "you are mistaken; there is nothing to be said for the 'antis.' Their arguments are positively . . . footling." ...
— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker
... Buttermish interrupted, "you are mistaken; there is nothing to be said for the 'antis.' Their arguments are positively . . . footling." ...
— The Ffolliots of Redmarley • L. Allen Harker


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