Meaning of PIDDLING
| Pronunciation: | | 'pidling
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial, unimportant |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pid"dling\, a.
Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons
and things.
The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, infrequent, jerkwater, knee-high, limited, little, meager, measly, Mickey Mouse, 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, smallish, small-time, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, thin, tight, tinhorn, two-bit, two-by-four |
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