footling

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English

Etymology 1

From footle +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

Adjective

footling (comparative more footling, superlative most footling)

  1. trivial, silly and irritating.
    • 1919, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 16, in All Roads Lead to Calvary:
      He was explaining to her things about the air service. . . . "Isn't it rather dangerous work?" she asked. She felt it was a footling question even as she asked it.
    • 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 7, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
      Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.
    • 1948 May 24, “United Nations: Over to You”, in Time, retrieved 14 October 2013:
      For 28 footling days the 58-nation General Assembly had been debating the now-famous U.S. afterthought: to postpone partition and substitute a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine.
    • 1962 December, “Letters to the Editor: Towards 75 m.p.h. expresses”, in Modern Railways, page 429:
      They are electrically hauled, and travel at over 70 m.p.h. between stops, but they make five stops at footling little country towns and take two hours for the 98-mile run.
    • 2009 July 15, Carlo Rotella, “The Genre Artist”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 October 2013:
      “Why did you persist in writing hurlothrumbo romances of the footling sort favored by mooncalfs?”
Translations

Verb

footling

  1. present participle and gerund of footle

Etymology 2

From foot +‎ -ling.

Pronunciation

Noun

footling (plural footlings)

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