Footling

Definition: Footling

Footling

Adjective

1. (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction".

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Synonyms: Footling

Crosswords: Footling

Albanian

i pavlerë (bad, barren, base, catchpenny, chaffy, cheap, crummy, dud, expendable, fiddling, frivolous, futile, jejune, measly, nugatory, paltry, peddling, tawdry, threepenny, trashy, vain, valueless, worthless), i kotë (feckless, futile, good for nothing, needless, otiose, pointless, unavailing, useless, vain, wanton, worthless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), нищожен (exiguous, insignificant, miserable, naught, negligible, nominal, nugatory, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, pygmy, shabby, trifling, trivial), маловажен (futile, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, last, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, pettifogging, petty, puerile, side, small time, trifling, two-by-four, unimportant). (various references)

Czech

opora (anchor, backbone, bulwark, buttress, foothold, footing, pillar, prop, staff). (various references)

Danish

fodpræsentation (footling presentation), saedefodpraesentation (footling presentation), knæpræsentation (footling presentation). (various references)

Dutch

voetligging (footling presentation). (various references)

French

nigaude. (various references)

German

läppisch (fiddling, silly), dumm (addled, asinine, blockish, brainless, dull, dully, dumb, fatuous, foolish, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inanely, oafish, obtuse, purblindly, silly, stupid, stupidly, thick, thumb, unintelligent), albern (absurd, addled, clownish, fatuous, fatuously, foolish, giggly, inane, inanely, ludicrous, ridiculous, silly, simper, simpering, simperingly, stupid). (various references)

Greek 

πρόπτωσις των κάτω άκρων (footling presentation). (various references)

Hungarian

jelentéktelen (baubling, dinkey, dinky, exiguous, fiddle-faddle, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsiderable, insignificant, irrelevant, jerkwater, light, minor, minor details, negligible, niggling, nugatory, null, obscure, of no great importance, of no moment, paltry, petty, piddling, scrubby, slight, small time, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Manx

neuscanshoil (trivial, unimportant). (various references)

Pig Latin

ootlingfay.(various references)

Portuguese

frívolo (baubling, conceited, cork, corky, flimsy, frivolous, futile, giddy, impulsive, light, light-headed, lightsome, nugatory, rattle-brained, shallow, trifling, vain). (various references)

Russian 

пустяковый (peddling, picayune, piddling, poxy, rubbishy, small beer, trifling). (various references)

Spanish

trivial (banal, commonplace, dismal, fiddling, mundane, piffling, platitudinous, sapless, trite, trivial), insignificamente. (various references)

Swedish

obetydlig (baubling, dinky, fiddling, fractional, fractionary, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, low, lowly, mean, minute, negligible, nobody, nugatory, one horse, peddling, picayune, piddling, slight, tenuous, trivial), futtig (cheap, derisive, derisory, frivolous, futile, mean, measly, paltry, picayune, potty). (various references)

Turkish

ufak tefek (bantam, petty, pint-size, pint-sized, slender, small), değersiz (cheap, despicable, inferior, insignificant, jerkwater, measly, milk and water, no-account, nonvalent, non-valent, nugatory, of no worth, paltry, pitiable, punk, rubbishy, shoddy, tinpot, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two bit, valueless, vile, worthless), aptalca (crazy, fatuously, fondly, foolish, foolishly, half-baked, idiotic, ill-considered, inept, stupidly), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Ukrainian

несенітний, нерозумний (brute, crack-brained, ill-judged, impolitic, insensate, silly, unreasonable, wacky, witless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dớ dẩn. (various references)

Misspellings

"Footling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bootling, footline, footlings, goatling, pootling, rootling. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fooling, footing, lofting, looting, tooling.

-2 letters: logion, looing, lotion, tiglon, toling.

-3 letters: fling, flint, flong, folio, glint, gonif, gonof, igloo, ingot, lingo, logoi, tigon.

-4 letters: filo, fino, flit, flog, foil, foin, font, fool, foot, gift, gilt, golf, goof, goon, info, into, lift, ling, lino, lint, lion, loft, logo, loin, long, loof, loon, loot, loti.

+2 letters: outflowing, outfooling.

+3 letters: flatfooting.

+4 letters: comfortingly, footfaulting, footslogging.

+5 letters: conflagration, floodlighting, glorification, waterflooding.