Crossword clues for footling
footling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
footling \foot"ling\ adj. small and of little importance; as, a footling gesture.
Syn: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, paltry, petty, piddling, picayune, small, trivial.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating. v
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(present participle of footle English) Etymology 2
n. A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.
WordNet
adj. (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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" [syn: fiddling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
Usage examples of "footling".
To ensure a full moon for the landing, or for some such footling reason, the weight of two carriers was nonchalantly forgone.
The knowledge I have gained is so footling that I may not even trouble to do so.
Doctor, his long legs crossed and a footling smile of anticipation on his face.
Are you sure that would be worse than living with a man she did love, if he was a footling person?
For anything simpler than distributing a few footling books to a bunch of grimy-faced kids I can't imagine.
Miss Didion would dismiss the comparison as footling when compared to the inescapability of her new-found emotional rawness.
He'd have the Playboy Channel for one thing, and all the footling vapidity of unrelieved soft core.
From his hours of sitting at the foot of the table, Fafhrd had learned that most of the spells were designed to inflict a noisome disease upon Gwaay: the Black Plague, the Red Plague, the Boneless Death, the Hairless Decline, the Slow Rot, the Fast Rot, the Green Rot, the Bloody Cough, the Belly Melts, the Ague, the Runs, and even the footling Nose Drip.
They plunged through heavy walls of sound, mountains of archaic thought, valleys of mood music, bad shoe sessions and footling bats and suddenly heard a girl's voice.