QUIDDLE

Etymology

Verb

quiddle (third-person singular simple present quiddles, present participle quiddling, simple past and past participle quiddled)

(intransitive, rare) To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle

(intransitive, rare) To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner.

Source: Wiktionary

Quid"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quiddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quiddling.] Etym: [L. quid what.]

Definition: To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

Quid"dle, Quid"dler, n.

Definition: One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition