from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
footling
adj 1: (informal) 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"; "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" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian},
{little}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty},
{picayune}, {trivial}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
footling \foot"ling\ adj.
small and of little importance; as, a footling gesture.
Syn: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, paltry, petty,
piddling, picayune, small, trivial.
[WordNet 1.5]