piddled

Verb

piddle (third-person singular simple present piddles, present participle piddling, simple past and past participle piddled)

1. (intransitive) (Often followed by about or around): to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
   • […] neuer ceaſinge piddeling about theyr bowe and ſhaftes, when they be well, […]1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe, →OCLC; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […]...
2. (intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.
   • As [Mahomet] was preaching... there commeth a doue flying towards him, & alighteth vpon his shoulder, and pidleth in his eare, looking for meate, hauing vsed her before to feede in his eare for the same purpose.1598, Richard Barckley, A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man..., page 217

   Synonyms:

   peck

3. (Southern US, intransitive, often) Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.
   • Diseases... that make them eate nothing at all, or else they doe but piddle and trifle.a. 1620, Jeremiah Dyke, Diuers Select Sermons on Seuerall Texts..., page 292

   Synonyms:

   nibble

4. (Australia, Namibia, South Africa, UK, euphemistic, intransitive) To urinate.
   • Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself.1784, cited in Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VI, p. 128

   Synonyms:

   widdle

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