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piddling definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1559 trivial, paltry

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Piddling Pid"dling, a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.

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

Piddling means small or unimportant. (INFORMAL) ...arguing over piddling amounts of money. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Trifling, trivial, frivolous, petty, unimportant, insignificant, immaterial, inconsiderable, worthless, of little value or consequence, of no moment.

Moby Thesaurus

Mickey Mouse, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, infrequent, jerkwater, knee-high, limited, little, meager, measly, miserly, niggardly, niggling, one-horse, paltry, peanut, peddling, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piffling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, punk, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, short, skimping, skimpy, slight, slim, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, thin, tight, tinhorn, two-bit, two-by-four