Piddle

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  piddle
       n : liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine";
           "the child had to make water" [syn: {urine}, {piss}, {pee},
            {weewee}, {water}]
       v 1: waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently [syn: {wanton},
             {wanton away}, {piddle away}, {trifle}]
       2: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive
          rug" [syn: {make}, {urinate}, {puddle}, {micturate}, {piss},
           {pee}, {pee-pee}, {make water}, {relieve oneself}, {take
          a leak}, {spend a penny}, {wee}, {wee-wee}, {pass water}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "piddle":
     beguile the time, burn daylight, consume time, coquet, dabble,
     dally, dawdle, diddle, dillydally, doodle, fiddle, fiddle with,
     fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around,
     fool with, footle, fribble, fritter away time, frivol,
     horse around, idle, jerk off, kid around, kill time, lag, linger,
     loiter, lollygag, lose time, make water, mess around, micturition,
     monkey, monkey around, number one, pass the time, pee, pee-pee,
     pish, piss, play, play around, play with, poke, potter, pump bilge,
     putter, smatter, spend a penny, stale, tinker, toy, toy with,
     trifle, twiddle, urea, urinate, urination, urine, waste time,
     water, wee-wee, wet