piddling : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: piddling	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for piddling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
piddling adj (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" Synonym(s): fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. To be squeamishly nice about one's food. --Swift. 3. To urinate; -- child's word.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Piddling \Pid"dling\, a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.