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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water] v
1: waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently [syn: piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle]
2: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (piddled; piddling) Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1545 1. dawdle, putter 2. urinate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. 1 colloq. urinate (used esp. to or by children). 2 work or act in a trifling way. 3 (as piddling adj.) colloq. trivial; trifling. --n. colloq. 1 urination. 2 urine (used esp. to or by children). Derivatives: piddler n. Etymology: sense 1 prob. f. PISS + PUDDLE: sense 2 perh. f. PEDDLE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(piddles, piddling, piddled) To piddle means to urinate. (INFORMAL) VERB

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. 1. [A form of Peddle.] (Rare.) Trifle, act with levity, be busy about trifles. 2. (Child's word.) Urinate, make water, void urine.

Moby Thesaurus

beguile the time, burn daylight, consume time, coquet, dabble, dally, dawdle, diddle, dillydally, doodle, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, finger with, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with, footle, fribble, fritter away time, frivol, horse around, idle, jerk off, kid around, kill time, lag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lose time, make water, mess around, micturition, monkey, monkey around, number one, pass the time, pee, pee-pee, pish, piss, play, play around, play with, poke, potter, pump bilge, putter, smatter, spend a penny, stale, tinker, toy, toy with, trifle, twiddle, urea, urinate, urination, urine, waste time, water, wee-wee, wet