What is the meaning of footling?

verb

• Be about.
  • usage: "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department"
  • synonyms: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around
• Act foolishly, as by talking nonsense.
  • synonyms: footle

adjective

• Informal) small and of little importance. (
  • usage: "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
  • synonyms: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial