piddle

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: pid=dle

CIDE DICTIONARY

piddle, v. i. [Cf. dial. Sw. pittla to keep picking at, Sw. peta to pick.].

•  To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.  Ascham.  [1913 Webster]
•  To be squeamishly nice about one's food.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]
•  To urinate; -- child's word.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

piddle, v. & n.
--v.intr.
1 colloq. urinate (used esp. to or by children).
2 work or act in a trifling way.
3 (as piddling adj.) colloq. trivial; trifling.
--n. colloq.
1 urination.
2 urine (used esp. to or by children).

Derivative

piddler n.

Etymology

sense 1 prob. f. PISS + PUDDLE: sense 2 perh. f. PEDDLE

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

piddle

Inactivity

VB be inactive, do nothing, move slowly, let the grass grow under one's feet, take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil, lag, hang back, slouch, loll, lollop, lounge, poke, loaf, loiter, go to sleep over, sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile, take it easy, take things as they come, lead an easy life, vegetate, swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness, loll in the lap of luxury, loll in the lap of indolence, waste time, consume time, kill time, lose time, burn daylight, waste the precious hours, idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time, spend time in, take time in, peddle, piddle, potter, pudder, dabble, faddle fribble, fiddle-faddle, dally, dilly-dally, sleep, slumber, be asleep, hibernate, oversleep, sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse, sleep soundly, heavily, doze, drowze, snooze, nap, take a nap, dream, snore one's best, settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep, doze off, drop off, fall asleep, drop asleep, close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids, weigh down the eyelids, get sleep, nod, yawn, go to bed, turn, get some z's, stack z's, languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire, relax, render idle, sluggardize, mitigate.