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单词 footling
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footling

enUK

foo·tling

F0237600 (fo͞ot′lĭng)adj. Informal 1. Lacking importance or significance; trifling: a footling gesture.2. Stupid; inept.
[Present participle of footle.]

footling

(ˈfuːtlɪŋ) adjinformal silly, trivial, or petty

foot•ling

(ˈfʊt lɪŋ)

adj. Informal. 1. foolish; silly: a footling amateur. 2. trifling; trivial: a footling remark. [1895–1900; footle + -ing2]
footle, footling - To footle is to talk or act foolishly, from the old verb meaning "bungle"; as an adjective, footle (or footling) refers to something trifling or silly.See also related terms for silly.
Thesaurus
Adj.1.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, niggling, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial, petty, lilliputian, littlecolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechunimportant - not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
Translations
futile

footling

enUK

foot·ling

(fut'ling), A fetal foot, particularly one that descends into the birth canal in an incomplete breech presentation. [foot, fr. A. S. fot, + -ling, dim. suffix]

foot·ling

(fut'ling) A fetal foot, particularly one that descends into the birth canal in an incomplete breech presentation. [foot, fr. A. S. fot, + -ling, dim. suffix]

footling

enUK
Related to footling: footling presentation, Footling breech
  • adj

Synonyms for footling

adj (informal) small and of little importance

Synonyms

  • fiddling
  • niggling
  • picayune
  • piddling
  • piffling
  • trivial
  • petty
  • lilliputian
  • little

Related Words

  • colloquialism
  • unimportant
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