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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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