'Piddling' definitions:
Definition of 'piddling'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(informal) 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"; "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, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
Definition of 'Piddling'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Piddling'
From: GCIDE
- Piddling \Pid"dling\, a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. [1913 Webster]
- The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'piddling'
From: GCIDE
- 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]