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quiddling

quiddling is the present participle and gerund 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 quiddling

What is quiddling the present participle and gerund of?
Quiddling is the present participle and gerund of quiddle.

Words near quiddling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quiddling (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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