footling
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈfuːt.lɪŋ/ / /ˈfʊt.lɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English footle English -ing English footling From footle + -ing.
- 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.”
“Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English foot Proto-Indo-European *-lósder. Proto-Germanic *-ilaz Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.? Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Germanic *-īnaz Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz ? Proto-Germanic *-ingaz Proto-Germanic *-ilingaz Proto-West Germanic *-ling Old English -ling Middle English -ling English -ling English footling From foot + -ling.
- 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
Etymology: Etymology tree English footle English -ing English footling From footle + -ing.
- present participle and gerund of footle