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footling definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: footle Date: circa 1897 1. lacking judgment or ability ; inept <footling amateurs who understand nothing — E. R. Bentley> 2. lacking use or value ; trivial <footling matters>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. trivial, silly.