PIDDLE - 7 definitions found
piddle 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] Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary piddle (piddles, piddling, piddled) To piddle means to urinate. (INFORMAL) VERB English Explanatory Dictionary piddle ˈpɪdl 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). øøpiddler n. [sense 1 prob. f. PISS + PUDDLE: sense 2 perh. f. PEDDLE] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms piddle 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 II by Grady Ward, 1.0 67 Moby Thesaurus words for "piddle": 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 |
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