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Definition of Piddling
1. Adjective. (informal) small and of little importance. "Giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Unimportant
Derivative terms: Littleness, Pettiness, Trivia, Triviality, Trivialize
Definition of Piddling
1. a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.
Definition of Piddling
1. Adjective. Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of piddle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piddling
1. piddle [v] - See also: piddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piddling
Literary usage of Piddling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Book about London: The Streets of London. An Alphabetical Index to the by William Henry Davenport Adams (1890)
"... of the English Stage," 1726 ; Edward Ward, author of " The London Spy," 1731;
and Lewis Theobald, the editor of " Shakespeare " (Pope's " piddling ..."
2. The Mohawks: A Satirical Poem with Notes by Morgan (Sydney), Lady Morgan (1822)
"... Or, by his jesting, or his fiddling,4 Long-ear'd majorities will lead, When
H-me with salaries is piddling, Or Van new taxes has decreed ? ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"A piddling reader .... might object to almost all the rhymes of the above quotation.
... Though the Castle of Otranto ba piddling piece of super-nature. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
""Too precise, too curious in piddling thus about the imitation of others.''—Ascham.
Schoolmaster. "Now for those other piddling complaints Breathed out in ..."
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