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piddle

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important. --Ascham. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Piddle may refer to: River Piddle , a river in Dorset, England A slang term for urine and urination Piddle Brook , a watercourse in Worcestershire, England Piddles , a character in the video game Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Pathetically trivial and trifling ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ This is expensive, but not as expensive as piddling around.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine , piss , pee , weewee , water ] v. waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently [syn: wanton , wanton away , piddle away , trifle ] eliminate urine; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British euphemistic slang English) An act of urination. vb. 1 (context British euphemistic slang English) To urinate. 2 To waste time; often used as a euphemism for ''piss'' and followed by ''away''.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "to peddle, to work in a trifling way," of uncertain origin, apparently a frequentative form. Meaning "to pick at one's food" is from 1610s; that of "urinate" is from 1796. Related: Piddled ; piddler ; piddling .

Usage examples of piddle.

For a minute, with the familiar shoptalk, he almost had the vision he was back at headquarters in a real job, not this makeweight piddling business, and under KeUeher too .

He had piddled in his chamberpot, then returned to his bed, only to find that sleep evaded him.

Kill the Master of the Aethyr on the road just as if you were a common bandit and him some piddling merchant?

He had influential friends on the West Coast -- mostly men who'd grown tired of Broadway's petty disloyalties and piddling profits, and were looking for a new place to put their talents and their investments -- who reported to him that cinema was a grand new frontier, and that talent scouts on the West Coast were looking for faces that the camera, and the public, would love.

In Attleboro, one of them had been arrested for disturbing the peace and then had jumped his piddling bail.

The president runs the whole shtick - a million population, which is piddling by modern standards but a lot of people if you try and count heads - he runs it like a household, a family, not a nation.

They defended Doc from what could easily become a twenty-four-hour-a-day job of interviewing persons with piddling problems—.

Not only that, but you will be volunteering your descendents for the muggy, sore-head way of life peculiar to persons who might have been rich and free, had not a soft-headed ancestor piddled a fortune away.

At the same time he turns around and watches his neighbor's door kicked in by goon squads to seize piddling amounts of contraband, while his home and assets are seized without ever being charged with a crime, then given to law-enforcement agencies who divide up the bounty amongst themselves.

But my valley just had a piddling little creek, and nobody ever found gold here.

We're out in the middle of the empty Martian plain in this piddling little vehicle.

It does need a finalebut you can't beat the show I put on in the Magellanic Clouds with a piddling little fine.

Hence, unlike all your billions of underlings, no decision you make can cause a change in your status, even if it were to plunge us into a real war, rather than this piddling little disturbance with the Argaves.

When spring comes I intend to hit them hard, and I won't piddle away my striking force a squad here and a com- pany there until I have nothing left.

Allow the show to make it down alive, then just let the circus piddle away.