footling
Collocations
3ADJ.
unexpected
VERB + FOOTLING
made
FOOTLING + NOUN
58-nation, breech, days, presentation
Definitions
adj
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
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.
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Idioms & Phrases
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4He 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.
WiktionaryOnly a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.
WiktionaryFor 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.
WiktionaryIn 1999 my fourth child (third daughter) made an unexpected footling breech presentation.
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