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piddling

[ pid-ling ]

adjective

  1. amounting to very little; trifling; negligible:

    a piddling sum of money.

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piddling

/ ˈ±èɪ»å±ôɪŋ /

adjective

  1. informal.
    petty; trifling; trivial
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±è¾±»å»å±ô¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â, adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of piddling1

First recorded in 1550–60; piddle + -ing 2
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There’s even a humbling sequence set in the real Carrara, where, against the quarry’s raw splendor, the mighty modern excavators look as piddling as Hot Wheels on the basement stairs.

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Yet on a comparative basis, they are piddling.

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Mencken points out that he’s not especially successful, that his business is “petty and piddling,†and to think of him as a leader is completely misguided.

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It also would have reduced Hiroshima and Nagasaki to a piddling afterthought; Nolan treats them instead as a profound absence, an indictment by silence.

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We loved her when she was open and raw, giving unflinchingly monologues on small stages she often ran onto, with piddling crowds she had to win over.

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