PIDDLE

urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water

(noun) liquid excretory product; “there was blood in his urine”; “the child had to make water”

make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water

(verb) eliminate urine; “Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug”

piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle

(verb) waste time; spend one’s time idly or inefficiently

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Piddle

A small river in Dorset, England.

Etymology

Noun

piddle (plural piddles)

(British, Australia, euphemistic slang) Piss: urine.

(British, Australia, euphemistic slang) A piss: an act of urination.

(British, figurative) Nonsense or a trivial matter.

Synonyms

• (urine): widdle, see also urine

• (urination): widdle, see also urination

Verb

piddle (third-person singular simple present piddles, present participle piddling, simple past and past participle piddled)

(intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.

(intransitive, obsolete) synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.

(intransitive, now South US, often with 'with') synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.

(UK, AU, South Africa, Namibia, euphemistic slang, intransitive or reflexive) To urinate.

Synonyms

• (urinate): widdle, see also urinate

Source: Wiktionary


Pid"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Piddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Piddling.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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