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piddling 音标拼音: [p'ɪdəlɪŋ] [p'ɪdlɪŋ] a. 无用的,琐屑的 无用的,琐屑的 piddling adj 1: (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" [synonym: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune}, {trivial}] Peddling \Ped"dling\, a. 1. Hawking; acting as a peddler. [1913 Webster] 2. Petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling; -- now less common than {piddling}. "The miserable remains of a peddling commerce." --Burke. Syn: petty; insignificant; trifling; paltry; piddling. [1913 Webster] Piddling \Pid"dling\, a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things. [1913 Webster] The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Piddle \Pid"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Piddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piddling}.] [Cf. dial. Sw. pittla to keep picking at, Sw. peta to pick.] 1. To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important. --Ascham. [1913 Webster] 2. To be squeamishly nice about one's food. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 3. To urinate; -- child's word. [1913 Webster] 61 Moby Thesaurus words for "piddling":
Mickey Mouse, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, cramped, dinky, exiguous, half-pint, infrequent, jerkwater, knee-high, limited, little, meager, measly, miserly, niggardly, niggling, one-horse, paltry, peanut, peddling, petite, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piffling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, punk, puny, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, short, skimping, skimpy, slight, slim, small, small-beer, small-time, smallish, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, thin, tight, tinhorn, two-bit, two-by-four
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