Associations to the word «Piddling»

Wiktionary

PIDDLING, adjective. Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
PIDDLING, verb. Present participle of piddle

Dictionary definition

PIDDLING, adjective. (informal) 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"; "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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats