Associations to the word «Piddling»
Noun
Adverb
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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.