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pid⋅dling
[pid-ling] 
–adjective
| amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money. |
pid⋅dle
[pid-l] verb, -dled, -dling.–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.
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.
[Origin unknown.] |
| pid·dling (pĭd'lĭng) adj. So trifling or trivial as to be beneath one's consideration. |
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Piddling
Pid"dling\, a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.
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