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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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Dictionary Results for piddling:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

piddling
    adj 1: (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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Peddling \Ped"dling\, a.
   1. Hawking; acting as a peddler.
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   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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Piddling \Pid"dling\, a.
   Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons
   and things.
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         The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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   2. To be squeamishly nice about one's food. --Swift.
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   3. To urinate; -- child's word.
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