piddling
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Adjective[edit]
piddling (not comparable)
- Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
- After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC:
- the ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes
Verb[edit]
piddling
- present participle and gerund of piddle