footling
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈfuːt.lɪŋ/
footling
- trivial, silly and irritating.
- 1948 May 24, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794364,00.html United Nations: Over to You]," Time (retrieved 14 Oct 2013):
- For 28 footling days the 58-nation General Assembly had been debating the now-famous U.S. afterthought: to postpone partition and substitute a U.N. trusteeship for Palestine.
- 2009 July 15, Carlo Rotella, "The Genre Artist ↗," New York Times (retrieved 14 Oct 2013):
- “Why did you persist in writing hurlothrumbo romances of the footling sort favored by mooncalfs?”
- 1948 May 24, "[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,794364,00.html United Nations: Over to You]," Time (retrieved 14 Oct 2013):
- present participle of footle#English|footle
- (British) IPA: /ˈfʊt.lɪŋ/
footling (plural footlings)
- A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its foot will emerge first. A type of breech birth.
- 2006 Jan. 29, "Excerpt from Physical: An American Checkup ↗" by James McManus, New York Times (retrieved 14 Oct 2013):
- In 1999 my fourth child (third daughter) made an unexpected footling breech presentation.
- 2006 Jan. 29, "Excerpt from Physical: An American Checkup ↗" by James McManus, New York Times (retrieved 14 Oct 2013):
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