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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: piddling (0.00869 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to piddling.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: piddling
piddling
adj : (informal terms) 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”;
“Mickey Mouse
regulations”;
“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,
Mickey Mouse,
niggling,
piffling,
petty,
picayune,
trivial]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Piddling
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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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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