Definition of footling Footling
foot•ling
We found 5 definitions of footling from 3 different sources.
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What does footling mean?
WordNet
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| footling - (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" | ||
| fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial | ||
| unimportant not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant" | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||
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Wiktionary 
- footling (Noun)
A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth . - footling (Verb)
Present participle of footle. - footling (Adjective)
Trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating.
