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footlingadjective so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attentionthe assistant's job was to shield the president from such footling problems chicken, de minimis, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, measly, Mickey Mouse, minute, negligible, niggling, no-account, nominal, paltry, peanut, petty, picayune, piddling, piddly, piffling, pimping, slight, trifling, trivial inferior, meanimperceptible, inappreciablelittle, puny, tinyhairsplitting, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibblingone-horse, small-fry, two-bit big, consequential, considerable, important, material, significant serious, substantial, weightyeventful, momentous, pivotalconspicuous, noteworthy, outstanding, prominent, remarkable, strikingappreciable, discernible(also discernable), measurable to spend time doing nothingspent the morning footling about while others were working bumming, chilling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about(British), hanging (around or out), idling, kicking around, kicking back, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflingdozing, estivating(also aestivating), hibernatinglagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarryingambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanningfurloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting killing time, twiddling one's thumbs drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, workingapplying, buckling (down)exerting, putting out in 1888 |