footler
(ˈfuːtlə(r))
[f. footle v. + -er1.]
One who footles.
| 1904 Chesterton Nap. Notting Hill iv. iii. 242 Drop your public-house flag, you footler! 1923 Daily Mail 22 June 7 Urbane persiflage directed against ‘footlers’, bores, and busybodies. 1923 U. 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. |