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[syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
footling \foot"ling\ adj.
   small and of little importance; as, a footling gesture.
   Syn: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, paltry, petty,
        piddling, picayune, small, trivial.
        [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
footling
    adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
           sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
           lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at
           war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over
           niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises";
           "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal
           may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune
           infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
           little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
           picayune, trivial]