Definition of "footler" []

• One who footles, foolish trifler (noun)

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• "I think we can manage the kind of footler he's been sendin 'over here lately, but if Lensch or some lad like that were to choose to turn up I wouldn't say what might happen."
• "Then there is: "A novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot.""
• "(But if I broke it down, I wouldn't be such a footler as to write plays and poems, would you?)"