Difference between Footling and Piffling

What is the difference between Footling and Piffling?

Footling as an adjective is trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating while Piffling as an adjective is unimportant

Footling

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: trivial; unimportant; useless; silly; inept; irritating

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a fetus oriented so that, at birth, its feet will emerge first. A type of breech birth.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To waste time; to trifle.

Piffling

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: unimportant

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.

We hope you now know whether to use Footling or Piffling in your sentence.

Also read

Popular Articles