English language
Toggle Transcript
Examples of footling
footling
This footling stuff is only of any interest because it is about the queen.
From the economist.com
But in the U.S. it's chump change so footling it's barely mentioned in the news reports.
From the ocregister.com
Six months later I emailed to inquire how things were coming along with my footling little appeal.
From the guardian.co.uk
These are not piddling concerns, but they are put to the footling purpose of endless windbaggery.
From the time.com
In the summer, he took part in an Ambleside Sports fell race, a mere nine miles rising a footling 3000ft.
From the guardian.co.uk
I am wicked, the worthless scum of the earth, a footling twallop who deserves your scorn and needs to be demoted.
From the scienceblogs.com
Osborne had believed such footling measures would slip through unnoticed, ignored in favour of the bigger announcements.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
Of what footling interest could this book be, about a British expat playing a game rather like bridge with a group of women in Cairo?
From the guardian.co.uk
But it is Lords reform, a footling concern to the electorate, that is likeliest to poison relations between Tories and Lib Dems.
From the economist.com
- Fiddling: (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 ...
- A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth; trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating
- Trivial; insignificante
