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Footling

//ˈfuːt.lɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    trivial, silly and irritating.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    (informal) small and of little importance wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its foot or feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.

    "In 1999 my fourth child (third daughter) made an unexpected footling breech presentation."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of footle form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From footle + -ing.

Etymology 2

From footle + -ing.

Etymology 3

From foot + -ling.

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