footling
adjective
[ ˈfuːtlɪŋ ]
• trivial and irritating.
• "year after year you come with the same footling complaint"
Similar:
trivial,
trifling,
petty,
insignificant,
unimportant,
minor,
silly,
pointless,
immaterial,
irrelevant,
inessential,
non-essential,
time-wasting,
fiddling,
hair-splitting,
paltry,
nugatory,
worthless,
of little account,
not worth bothering about,
not worth mentioning,
piddling,
piffling,
penny-ante,
twopenny-halfpenny,
nickel-and-dime,
small-bore,
picayune,
footle
verb
• engage in fruitless activity; mess about.
• "where's that pesky creature that was footling about outside?"
Origin:
late 19th century: perhaps from dialect footer ‘idle, potter about’, from 16th-century foutre ‘worthless thing’, from Old French, literally ‘have sexual intercourse with’.
