different between foozling vs footling

English

Verb

foozling

1. present participle of foozle

English

Etymology 1

From footle +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fu?t.l??/

Adjective

footling (comparative more footling, superlative most footling)

1. trivial, silly and irritating.
   • 1948 May 24, "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?”

Translations

Verb

footling

1. present participle of footle

Etymology 2

foot +? -ling.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f?t.l??/

Noun

footling (plural footlings)

1. 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.