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footler|ˈfuːtlə(r)|
[f. footle v. + -er1.]
One who footles.
1904Chesterton Nap. Notting Hill iv. iii. 242 Drop your public-house flag, you footler! 1923Daily Mail 22 June 7 Urbane persiflage directed against ‘footlers’, bores, and busybodies. 1923U. L. Silberrad Lett. J. Armiter ix. 191 The rest are just footlers who'd piffle and gas. 1940‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 133 A novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot. |