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quiddle
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quiddle, v. i. [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, n.
One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson. [1913 Webster]
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