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Piddling

verb
/ˈpɪdəlɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo eat with small, quick bites.
"The rabbit nibbled at the lettuce."
2.verbTo bite lightly.
"He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver."
3.verbTo consume gradually.
4.verbTo find fault; to cavil.
5.verbTo strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
"The birds pecked at their food."
6.verbTo form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
"to peck a hole in a tree"
7.verbTo strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
8.verbTo seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
9.verbTo do something in small, intermittent pieces.
"He has been pecking away at that project for some time now."
10.verbTo type by searching for each key individually.
11.verbTo type in general.
12.verbTo kiss briefly.
13.verbTo throw.
14.verbTo lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
15.verbOften followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
16.verb(Namibia) To urinate.
17.adjectiveInsignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
"After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money."

Synonyms

piddlewiddlepettypifflingunimportanttrivialfootlinglittlelilliputiannigglingfiddlingpicayune

Rhymes With

middlingfiddlingfair to middlingtwiddlingridlingmiddle lung
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