Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. So trifling or trivial as to be beneath one's consideration.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Trifling. Also peddling.
- Squeamish; difficult to please, especially in eating.
Wiktionary
- adj. Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
- v. present participle of piddle.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (informal) small and of little importance
Examples
“Most wine retails for less than $20, but even if your resources can best be described as piddling, Christmas is not the time for sending Aunt Kate a $7.95 Romanian chardonnay.”
“We're not talking about the kind of piddling savings that comes from giving up your twice-a-week Starbucks”
“It's also work that Michael Behe called "piddling", despite the fact that it directly addresses the claims of irreducible complexity.”
“Bill Clinton drove this point home in his controlled but angry remarks that we have been "piddling" in response to this jobs crisis.”
“Not even because of the use of the word 'piddling' as a Parliamentary term.”
“This is the work that Behe has called "piddling", and claims that it has no relevance to the evolvability of complex biochemical...”
Evolution of IC: Evolution of Hormone-Receptor Complexity - The Panda's Thumb
“After some whispering and laughter by the interpreters, and an interjection by Premier Zhou Enlai, it became clear that what Mao had said was more like either "piddling" or "farting.”
“Pope calls him "piddling" because of his scrupulous attention to details.”
“We weren't as negative as Picasso (who called his work "piddling") and certainly neither of us would go so far as to say Bonnard is terrible.”
“But on the piddling, cash-strapped Sunday Herald…?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piddling’.
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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January 2012
bloviate, pastiche, apparat, facile, paroxysm, pique, bedfellow, pedigree, tutelage, protege, protégé, retroactive and 196 more...
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rolls off the tongue
Words you love saying because they feel and sound so good!
(Not to be conflated with words you love saying because they are onomatopoeic, I have another list for that)gubernatorial, predeliction, quibbling, propensity, proclivity, insidious, nebulous, garble, crabapple, piddling, prattle, wheedling and 11 more...
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onomatopoeic
warble, quibble, quirk, drudgery, chortle, snicker, galumph, thwart, schlock, whimsy, garble, miffed and 25 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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words I love to use
kerfuffle, smarmy, sketchy, grim, wheedle, piffle, prattle, loggerheads, snarky, piddling, nix, caterwaul and 90 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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This week's words
hand-handled, crouch, hootchy-kootchy, gloriole, glory hole, metempsychosis, doctrinaire, transmigration, celestial, treetop, luxuriant, physic and 102 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Under-used words that have everyday m...
The title is pretty self-explanatory, but, in case
it's too simple for complex minds to full comprehend, I shall explain. Any word, that i deem
capable, that I find I can use in everyda...Belswagger, defenestration, galumph, quibble, gadzooks, wangle, lackadaisical, gobsmacked, hobbledehoy, piddling, brouhaha, chutzpah and 8 more...
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Generally Enjoyable
supercilious, facetious, crump, upchuck, zizz, soma, proprioception, solipsism, autochthonous, notwithstanding, kinesthetic, cocentric and 31 more...
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must employ on more frequent occasions
These words I know, I just haven't used them in a while. Time to bring them back into vogue.
questionable, mishap, hectic, prone, departure, retrieve, elsewhere, insurmountable, distraught, immeasurable, potent, ravenous and 83 more...
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Funny Words
kiwi, duck, kumquat, grok, polyglot, palpable, callipygian, champignon, insouciant, apocope, boom, oink and 47 more...
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vernacular
neeps, chuffed, dodgy, peckish, rubbish, codswallop, cinema, nutter, innit, chav, twit, nicked and 4 more...
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