Definitions for footling

footling foot·ling

Spelling: [foo t-ling]
IPA: /ˈfʊt lɪŋ/

Footling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in footling (fgilnoot).

Definitions for footling

noun

  1. nonsense; foolishness; silliness.

adjective

  1. foolish; silly:
  2. trifling or useless.

verb (used without object)

  1. to act or talk in a foolish or silly way.

Origin of footling

First recorded in 1895-1900; footle + -ing2

Examples for footling

Seems as if everything were too small and footling to matter.

I wouldn't lose this day at Pompeii for a shipload of footling schoolmasters.

For the life of me, I can't see why we should carry these footling little nations on our shoulders.

"I s'pose we'll just keep on footling about here till the blooming war's over," he growled.

Are you sure that would be worse than living with a man she did love, if he was a footling person?

Only a couple of days ago I was compelled to take him off a case because his handling of it was so footling.

But he must do this, his very first job, absolutely correctly, and without any bungling and footling.

Word Value for footling
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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