Found 5 hits - Term: piddling, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
peddling \ped"dling\, a.
1. hawking; acting as a peddler.
1913 webster
2. petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling; -- now
less common than piddling. "the miserable remains of a
peddling commerce." --burke.
syn: petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling.
1913 webster
see also:
piddling
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
2. to be squeamishly nice about one's food. --swift.
1913 webster
3. to urinate; -- child's word.
1913 webster
see also:
piddled piddling
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
piddling \pid"dling\, a.
trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons
and things.
1913 webster
the ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --milton.
1913 webster
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
fiddling footling lilliputian little mickey mouse niggling
piffling petty picayune trivial
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
61 moby thesaurus words for "piddling":
mickey mouse, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky,
exiguous, half-pint, infrequent, jerkwater, knee-high, limited,
little, meager, measly, miserly, niggardly, niggling, one-horse,
paltry, peanut, peddling, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune,
picayunish, piffling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, punk, puny,
rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrimping, scrimpy,
seldom met with, seldom seen, short, skimping, skimpy, slight,
slim, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish, sparse, spotty,
sprinkled, stingy, thin, tight, tinhorn, two-bit, two-by-four
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