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quiddles

quiddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quiddle.

Meaning of quiddle

Verb

quiddle (third-person singular simple present quiddles, present participle quiddling, simple past and past participle quiddled)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle
    • He couldn't stop quiddling about the weather.
  2. (intransitive, rare) To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner.

Questions about quiddles

What is quiddles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Quiddles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quiddle.

Words near quiddles in the dictionary

  1. quiddity
  2. quiddle
  3. quiddled
  4. quiddler
  5. quiddlers
  6. quiddles
  7. quiddling
  8. Quidenham
  9. quidlet
  10. quidlets
  11. quidnunc

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quiddles (page history and authors); quiddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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