piddlers

“Punctual people know too well the unfair advantage of dawdlers, diddlers and piddlers: One late person can dictate the schedule of many colleagues.”

The Wall Street Journal: I'm Not Really Late,

“The carpenters, Washington said, were notorious piddlers; and not a slave about the mansion house was worthy of trust.”

American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime

“In fact, they were largely, perforce, a class of piddlers; and like piddlers everywhere more indispensable than any other element of the community.”

"The Free Negroes of North Carolina"

“They are piddlers upon merit, beggars at the door of accomplishment, thieves of livlihood, envy coddling tax lice applauding themselves for giving away other people's money.”

New England Republican

“They are piddlers upon merit, beggars at the door of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood, envy coddling tax lice applauding themselves for giving away other people's money.”

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