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piddling 音標拼音: [p'ɪdəlɪŋ] [p'ɪdlɪŋ] a. 無用的,瑣屑的 無用的,瑣屑的 piddling 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" [ synonym: { fiddling}, { footling}, { lilliputian}, { little}, { niggling}, { piddling}, { piffling}, { petty}, { picayune}, { trivial}] Peddling \ Ped" dling\, a. 1. Hawking; acting as a peddler. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling; -- now less common than { piddling}. " The miserable remains of a peddling commerce." -- Burke. Syn: petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling. [ 1913 Webster]
Piddling \ Pid" dling\, a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. [ 1913 Webster] The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To be squeamishly nice about one' s food. -- Swift. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To urinate; -- child' s word. [ 1913 Webster] 61 Moby Thesaurus words for " piddling": 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
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