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piddling |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Piddling \Pid"dling\, a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton. 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]: piddling adj : (informal terms) small and of little importance; "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" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {niggling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}]
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