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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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Pid·dling a.Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.
The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. --Milton.
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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]