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piddling

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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Piddling \Pid"dling\, a.
   Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons
   and things.

         The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.

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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

piddling
     adj : (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse
           regulations"; "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}, {Mickey Mouse}, {niggling},
            {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}]
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