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piddle

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Piddle  \Pid"dle\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Piddled};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Piddling}.]  [Cf.  dial.  Sw  pittla  to  keep  picking  at  Sw 
  peta  to  pick.] 
  1.  To  deal  in  trifles;  to  concern  one's  self  with  trivial 
  matters  rather  than  with  those  that  are  important. 
  --Ascham. 
 
  2.  To  be  squeamishly  nice  about  one's  food.  --Swift. 
 
  3.  To  urinate;  --  child's  word 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  piddle 
  n  :  liquid  excretory  product;  "there  was  blood  in  his  urine"; 
  "the  child  had  to  make  water"  [syn:  {urine},  {piss},  {pee}, 
  {weewee},  {water}] 
  v  1:  waste  time;  spend  one's  time  idly  or  inefficiently  [syn:  {wanton}, 
  {wanton  away},  {piddle  away},  {trifle}] 
  2:  eliminate  urine;  "Again,  the  cat  had  made  on  the  expensive 
  rug"  [syn:  {make},  {urinate},  {puddle},  {micturate},  {piss}, 
  {pee},  {pee-pee},  {make  water},  {relieve  oneself},  {take 
  a  leak},  {spend  a  penny},  {wee},  {wee-wee},  {pass  water}]




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