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Adjective footling has 1 sense
- fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial - (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"
Antonyms: important, of import (indirect, via unimportant)
Verb footle has 2 senses
- loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around - be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?"
--1 is one way to be
Sample sentences:
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Somebody ----s PP
- footle - act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
--2 is one way to act, behave, do
Sample sentence:
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