footling

Plural: footlings

Verb

• be about
• act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
• present participle and gerund of footle

Adjective Satellite

• (informal) small and of little importance
  • "a footling gesture"

Adj

• trivial, silly and irritating.

Noun

• A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its foot or feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.

Adjective

• Trivial, petty, or ineffective.

Examples

• His FOOTLING attempts to form a seven-letter word left him with a terrible rack in Scrabble.

Synonyms

fiddling, footle, hang around, lallygag, lilliputian, linger, little, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, tarry, trivial

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