Why Does Piddle Mean?
To Spend Time in a Wasteful, Trifling, or Ineffective Way; Dawdle (Often Followed by Around): He Wasted the Day Piddling Around. Informal. (Especially of...
to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed by around): He wasted the day piddling around. Informal. (especially of children and pets) to urinate. verb (used with object), pid·dled, pid·dling.
Where did the word piddling come from?
Piddling comes from piddle, which has changed in meaning over the years — in the early 1600's it meant "pick at one's food," while by the late 1700's it meant "to urinate."
What is piddling around mean?
chiefly US, informal. : to waste time doing something that is not important or useful We should stop piddling around and get busy.
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