What's the difference between footle and trifle?

Footle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 463 breeches are analyzed by age and parity of the mother, type of breech presentation (frank or footling) and type of delivery (vaginal or abdominal).
  • (2) The catastrophe of death and anarchy that failed drug suppression has brought to Mexico and to other narco-states makes the west's obsessive war on terror seem like a footling sideshow.
  • (3) She presented at term with spontaneous rupture of the membranes and a double footling breech presentation.
  • (4) The incidence of CDH was 0.7 per cent in cephalic presentation, 2 per cent in footling presentation and 20 per cent in single-breech presentation.
  • (5) Women (8.8%) with twin pregnancy, fetus in breech, footling and transverse lie, or having an elective cesarean section were analysed separately.
  • (6) The absurdity of a hotline to complain about motorway cones did for John Major largely because it came towards the end of a long period of Tory rule: it seemed to encapsulate a government that, re-elected for a fourth term, was running out of ideas, reduced to fiddling with footling policies about not very much.
  • (7) At approximately 36 weeks gestation a healthy make infant 2600 grams was delivered by double footling breech spontaneous delivery.
  • (8) When you're a 14-year-old virgin, the widespread assumption that you're getting lots of action provides some footling compensation for the fact that you're not.
  • (9) A male neonate, the product of a precipitious, instrumented, footling breech delivery, exhibited seizures at the age of 18 hours.
  • (10) A modest challenge Central to the 10:10 campaign is an acknowledgement that the kind of action we are typically urged to take to combat climate change is all too often either footling or forbiddingly hair-shirted.
  • (11) The good doctor expressed his dismay, but also bafflement that "a high proportion of the population are prepared to cry aloud about footling matters of uncleanliness such as a tomato sauce stain on a restaurant tablecloth, whilst they luxuriate on a plush seat in their faeces-stained pants."
  • (12) The incidence of cord prolapse was increased especially with the footling breech.
  • (13) footling, extended arms or difficulty in descent of the fetal head.
  • (14) When Apgar scores, perinatal mortality rates, cord prolapse, and entrapment of the aftercoming head are considered, cesarean section is probably the safer course of management for the patient with a footling breech infant, especially when the infant weighs 1500 g or less.
  • (15) Delivery was carried out spontaneously with double footling presentation.
  • (16) One hour later she gave birth spontaneously to a preterm infant in footling breech delivery.
  • (17) The benefit of cesarean delivery was greater for nulliparae than multiparae, greater for footlings than for frank or complete breeches, and greater for larger babies than smaller ones.
  • (18) To be sure, eurozone GDP in the second quarter of 2013 grew by only a relatively footling 0.3% , concealing all sorts of continuing crises and sufferings behind strong performances from Germany and France.
  • (19) The indications for the 13 cesarean sections after vaginal delivery of twin A were fetal distress, cord prolapse, high presenting part, and footling breech.

Trifle


Definition:

  • (n.) A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
  • (n.) A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
  • (n.) To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.
  • (v. t.) To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.
  • (v. t.) To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a relatively trifling lead exposure they developed the signs of acute lead intoxication.
  • (2) It featured Adam Dalgliesh, the poet-policeman, and he seemed old-fashioned, too, intellectual and a trifle upper-class.
  • (3) So Inter sold him to Real Madrid at the end of the 1995-96 season for the trifling sum of £3.5million - less than they had paid for him.
  • (4) 1.15pm: Dave Espley is not a man to be trifled with: "I'd agree with Steven Gardner regarding the use of video technology for goalline reviews, but I'd go slightly further with regard to the retrospective punishment for cheating.
  • (5) Clementine and dark chocolate trifle (above) This recipe gives classic trifle a zingy twist with clementines and orange blossom; a great make-ahead dinner party dessert.
  • (6) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
  • (7) English friends had explained to me, not without pride, the importance of grumbling to the national character, but I still want to stress to every Londoner I meet that — take it from a visiting Los Angeleno — the tube exists, and that counts as no trifling achievement.
  • (8) But it is a trifle dispiriting even so to hear the education secretary parroting the same lines as his predecessors – even more so for teachers, I guess.
  • (9) This March, the proportions of loans taken by finance and property slumped all the way to a trifling 74.7%, while non-financial firms took a whopping 25.3%.
  • (10) It wasn't a baked Alaska, a fruit tart, a cream-laden trifle or a steamed treacle sponge.
  • (11) If you wish to have only a trifling risk group of 10% of all pregnant women, you can predict right only about 50% of all infants with low birth weight.
  • (12) Bake Off validates the small quiet dramas of the trifling everyday.
  • (13) As in most mutinous them-and-us industrial confrontations it had been simmering for years and then boiled over for what seemed the most trifling of reasons.
  • (14) "And he is at a loss whether to pity a people who take such arrant trifles in good earnest or to envy that happiness which enables a community to discuss them."
  • (15) I try to answer these letters, but compared to the stories I'm hearing, my experience has been trifling - as more than one correspondent has pointed out.
  • (16) With the menswear shows in the capital now on their sixth season, such trifles have their place even in the mainstream world of an Arcadia-owned brand.
  • (17) Some jokey conspiracy theories did the rounds and one YouTube user criticised Hadfield's interpretation of the song as being overly literal (arguably correct, but a trifle harsh, considering).
  • (18) Clegg was the deputy prime minister and would not jeopardise his relationship with the Conservative party over such a trifle.
  • (19) And what would become of my mornings in my little corner and my late nights scanning the TV channels, watching my crime shows, not a trifling thing?
  • (20) But it’s no trifle — especially given the governor’s national ambitions.