Definition of Quiddle

1. v. i. To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

2. n. One who wastes his energy about trifles.

Definition of Quiddle

1. Verb. (intransitive rare) To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive rare) To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quiddle

1. to trifle [v QUIDDLED, QUIDDLING, QUIDDLES] - See also: trifle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quiddle

quid pro quibus
quid pro quo
quid pro quos
quidam
quidams
quiddanies
quiddany
quiddative
quidded
quidding
quiddit
quidditative
quiddities
quiddits
quiddity
quiddle (current term)
quiddled
quiddler
quiddlers
quiddles
quiddling
quidlet
quidlets
quidnunc
quidnuncery
quidnuncs
quids
quids in
quiesce
quiesced

Literary usage of Quiddle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"3. quiddle, to trifle, to discourse in a trifling way; ' Set out your bussing base, and we will quiddle upon it', ..."

2. Autumn Leaves by Samuel Jackson Gardner (1865)
"... quiddle, as on "work, work, work." A poor laborer is waiting for his breakfast; how lamentably the good housewife spins round and round, ..."

3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... allied in meaning and usage are conveniently grouped : eg, QUIB, QUILL, QUIBBLE, quiddle, ... Set up your huffing base, and we will quiddle upon it. ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1871)
"[Colloquial, US] Dawdle, subterfuge, prevarication, equivocation, trifles. waste time in trifles, be busy about quiddle, ) n. [Colloquial, US] Trifler ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Quiddle on Dictionary.com!Search for Quiddle on Thesaurus.com!Search for Quiddle on Google!Search for Quiddle on Wikipedia!

Search

Translations