Quiddle

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quiddle \Quid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Quiddled}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Quiddling}.] [L. quid what.]
     To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful
     subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
     [1913 Webster] Quiddle



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quiddle \Quid"dle\, Quiddler \Quid"dler\, n.
     One who wastes his energy about trifles. --Emerson.
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