piddling - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'piddling' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Piddling

[ a.]

- Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.

2 . Piddling

[ p. pr. & vb. n.]

- of Piddle

1 . piddling

[ s]

Meaning (1):
- (informal) small and of little importance

Example in sentence:

a dispute over niggling details;
a fiddling sum of money;
a footling gesture;
a little (or small) matter;
giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction;
limited to petty enterprises;
our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war;
piffling efforts

piddle piddled piddler piddock

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