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piddling
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piddling
(gcide) | Peddling \Ped"dling\, a.
1. Hawking; acting as a peddler.
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2. Petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling; -- now
less common than piddling. "The miserable remains of a
peddling commerce." --Burke.
Syn: petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling.
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Piddling
(gcide) | Piddling \Pid"dling\, a.
Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons
and things.
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The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.
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Piddling
(gcide) | 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.
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2. To be squeamishly nice about one's food. --Swift.
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3. To urinate; -- child's word.
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piddling
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adj 1: (informal) 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, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial] |
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Piddling
(gcide) | Peddling \Ped"dling\, a.
1. Hawking; acting as a peddler.
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2. Petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling; -- now
less common than piddling. "The miserable remains of a
peddling commerce." --Burke.
Syn: petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling.
[1913 Webster]Piddling \Pid"dling\, a.
Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons
and things.
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The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]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.
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2. To be squeamishly nice about one's food. --Swift.
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3. To urinate; -- child's word.
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