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pid⋅dle

  [pid-l] verb, -dled, -dling.
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–verb (used without object)
1. to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often fol. by around): He wasted the day piddling around.
2. Informal. (esp. of children and pets) to urinate.
–verb (used with object)
3. to waste (time, money, etc.); fail to utilize (usually fol. by away).
Origin:
1535–45; orig. uncert.

Related forms:
piddler, noun
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pid·dle   (pĭd'l)   
v.   pid·dled, pid·dling, pid·dles

v.   tr.
To use triflingly; squander: piddle away one's time.
v.   intr.

  1. To spend time aimlessly; diddle.

  2. Informal To urinate.


[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
piddle

  1. in.
    to urinate. (Said of children and pets.) : Please, Jimmy, don't piddle on the floor.
  2. n.
    urine. : Don't step in the puppy's piddle.

  3. Go to piddle (around). :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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piddle (around)

  1. in.
    to waste time; to work aimlessly or inefficiently. : Can't you get serious and stop piddling?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

piddle 
1545, "to peddle, to work in a trifling way," of uncertain origin, apparently a frequentative form. Meaning "to pick at one's food" is from 1620; that of "urinate" is from 1796. Piddling (adj.) "insignificant, trifling" is from 1559.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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