piddling adj : (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]

English

Verb

piddling

1. present participle of piddle

Adjective

1. Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

   After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.

Piddle may refer to:

• River Piddle, a river in Dorset
• A slang term for urine and urination.
• Piddle Brook, a watercourse in Worcestershire

See also

• Wyre Piddle

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