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  • noun Plural form of footler.

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Examples

  • These fussy old footlers whose 'air stands on hend at a row-de-dow joke,

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various

  • It is interesting to notice how many of our leading writers, who a dozen years ago were art for art’s saking for all they were worth and would have considered it too vulgar for words even to vote at a general election, are now taking a definite political standpoint; while most of the younger writers, at least those of them who are not mere footlers, have been ‘political’ from the start.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • a definite political standpoint; while most of the younger writers, at least those of them who are not mere footlers, have been

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

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