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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"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Unimportant
Derivative terms: Littleness, Pettiness, Trivia, Triviality, Trivialize
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
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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