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Examples of piddling
piddling
What we didn't know is that would happen so soon, or over something so piddling.
From the guardian.co.uk
Religious consevatives were outraged, and their complaint was not a piddling one.
From the online.wsj.com
He's also not regretful his NBA Finals career stats are off to piddling starts.
From the ocregister.com
We're a piddling little country with nothing to offer if they invaded our shores.
From the guardian.co.uk
And due to the network's piddling size, it was, in truth, probably unnecessary.
From the economist.com
The arrogant swan just swam straight at what it saw as a piddling little upstart.
From the guardian.co.uk
Such piddling hurdles as federal law don't matter to the Obama administration.
From the washingtontimes.com
And I'm gonna rent till then, which is a bigger bet than a piddling 200 euros.
From the guardian.co.uk
I am sure that a bally sight more than a piddling 250 million pounds will be saved.
From the independent.co.uk
- Fiddling: (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 ...
- (piddle) urine: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water"
- (piddle) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- (piddle) make: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"
- (Piddle (excretion)) Urination, also known as micturition, voiding, peeing, and more rarely, emiction, is the process of disposing of urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. In healthy humans the process of urination is under voluntary control. ...
- (Piddle (river)) The River Piddle or Trent or North River is a small rural Dorset river which rises next to Alton Pancras church (Alton Pancras was originally named Awultune, a Saxon name meaning the village at the source of a river) and flows south and then south-easterly more or less parallel ...
- (Piddle (waste)) Urine is a sterile, liquid by-product of the body that is secreted by the kidneys through a process called urination and excreted through the urethra. Cellular metabolism generates numerous by-products, many rich in nitrogen, that require elimination from the bloodstream. ...
- Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless
- (piddle) An act of urination; To waste time; often used as a euphemism for piss and followed by away; To urinate
