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piddling
(
a
.)無用的,瑣屑的
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pid·dle
v. i.
[
imp. &
p
. p.
Piddled
p.
pr
. &
vb
. n.
Piddling
]
1.
To
deal
in
trifles
;
to
concern
one's
self
with
trivial
matters
rather
than
with
those
that
are
important
.
2.
To
be
squeamishly
nice
about
one's
food
.
3.
To
urinate
; --
child's
word
.
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►
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pid·dling
a.
Trifling;
trivial
;
frivolous
;
paltry
; --
applied
to
persons
and
things
.
The
ignoble
hucksterage
of
piddling
tithes
.
--
Milton
.
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
]
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