Definition of Footling

1. Adjective. (informal) small and of little importance. "Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"


Definition of Footling

1. Adjective. Trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of footle) ¹

3. Noun. A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Footling

1. footle [v] - See also: footle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Footling

footle around
footle away
footled
footler
footlers
footles
footless
footlessly
footlessness
footlessnesses
footlicker
footlickers
footlight
footlights
footlike
footling (current term)
footling presentation
footlings
footlocker
footlockers
footlog
footlong
footlongs
footloose
footloose and fancy free
footlooseness
footly
footman
footmanship
footmark

Literary usage of Footling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Obstetrics: The Science and the Art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1856)
"Such an accident would give rise to a footling labor, or to a presentation of the knees. A footling presentation, then, is only an accident happening in the ..."

2. Difficult labour: A Guide to Its Management for Students and Practitioners by George Ernest Herman (1894)
"The more widely the conditions upon which the presentation depends depart from the normal, the more they tend to produce footling rather than breech ..."

3. A System of Midwifery: Including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal by William Leishman (1876)
"Special risk of Pelvic Presentations—Diagnosis and Peculiarities—Knee and footling Cases—Management of Pelvic Presentations—Nature of Assistance to be ..."

4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1838)
"Of the 89 children still born, there were— footling cases, . . . .10 Breech, 12 Funis, 4 Twins, 8 Arm and turning, ... 6 Ruptured uterus, . ..."

5. A Manual of Obstetrics by Albert Freeman Africanus King (1907)
"TREATMENT OF KNEE AND footling CASES. the presenting parts are at the superior strait, owing to a foot or a knee being caught over the edge of the pelvic ..."

6. Obstetrics, normal and operative by George Peaslee Shears (1916)
"Diagram showing how obliquity of the uterus produces footling presentation. (After Kustner.) ( Herman's Difficult Labor, Wm. Wood & Co. ..."

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