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Piddle   /pˈɪdəl/   Listen
verb
Piddle  v. i.  (past & past part. piddled; pres. part. piddling)  
1.
To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.
2.
To be squeamishly nice about one's food.
3.
To urinate; child's word.





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"Piddle" Quotes from Famous Books



... bigger events, you may send to the Russian army, who will cut you fifteen thousand throats in a paragraph; or, en attendant, you may piddle with the havoc made at Chantilly, which has been half demolished by the rights of men, as the poor old Mesdames have been stopped by the rights of the poissardes; for, as it is true that extremes meet, the moment despotism was hurled from the throne, it devolved to the ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... you see, an' she is carryin' 'em out an' addin' on more. I seed 'er git as red as a turkey-cock t'other day beca'se a nigger-wench rung the front-door bell. She made the woman hump 'erself round to the kitchen double quick. She's got a new toy to piddle with, an' it's a whoppin' big un. She says things has to move accordin' to the clock on this gigantic place, an' so far it's doin' it. Wait, I'll shet the gate an' ride ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... "Don't remember! Piddle dumpling! You remembered well enough when you came back all agog with the news. I reproved you for listening to idle gossip, and you read a sermon of Blair's on evil speaking aloud to me that night. You ...
— The Honorable Miss - A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town • L. T. Meade
... not disprove the contrary proposition, that he who begins as a thief or an iconoclast is likely to end as such. But the actuating motive has nothing to do with what we, in our retrospective analysis, are pleased to prove. Not so far forth are we willing to piddle among the knicknacks of Shakib's Histoire Intime of ...
— The Book of Khalid • Ameen Rihani
... look at all our naked bodies without the slightest hesitation; and when playing in the garden, if one wanted to relieve the pressure on the bladder, we all squatted down together, and crossed waters, each trying who could piddle fastest. Notwithstanding these symptoms of passion when excited, in a state of calm I might have passed for a ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous


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