footling in English

adjective

1

trivial and irritating.

year after year you come with the same footling complaint

synonyms: trivial, trifling, petty, insignificant, inconsequential, picayune, unimportant, minor, small, time-wasting, piddling, fiddling

verb

1

engage in fruitless activity; mess about.

where's that pesky creature that was footling about outside?

adjective

• trivial, trifling, petty, insignificant, inconsequential, picayune, unimportant, minor, small, time-wasting, piddling, fiddling
• fiddling, picayune, little, petty, niggling, piddling, piffling, trivial, lilliputian

verb

• lollygag, mill about, mess about, lounge, tarry, linger, mill around, loiter, lallygag, hang around, loaf, lurk

Use "footling" in a sentence

1. Where have you been footling around?

2. Stop footling about , we have serious work to do.

3. Time after time they came with the same footling complaints.

4. Congress's response to recent bribery scandals has been to impose footling restrictions on lobbyists.

5. There are three types of Breech baby positions: complete, footling, and frank Breech.

6. He could always do something useful instead of wasting my time with footling queries.

7. "REVOLUTION" is an overused word; the latest footling change often hyped into the biggest revolution since the last one.

8. A Breech baby can lie in one of three positions, known as extended (frank); flexed (complete); or footling

9. But it has been interpreted to mean that they must abide by every footling wildlife regulation on Earth.

10. There is a general consensus that planned caesarean section is better than planned vaginal birth for the delivery of the fetus in the breech presentation At term if the presentation is footling, if the fetus is compromised, if the fetus is large or has a congenital abnormality that could cause a mechanical problem at vaginal delivery, or if a