piddle
see also: Piddle
Pronunciation Noun
Piddle
Proper noun
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see also: Piddle
Pronunciation Noun
piddle (plural piddles)
- (British, Australia, euphemistic slang) Piss: urine.
- 1870, Cythera's Hymnal, p. 77:
- The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.
- 1870, Cythera's Hymnal, p. 77:
- (British, Australia, euphemistic slang) A piss: an act of urination.
- 1937, Eric Honeywood Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, p. 625:
- Piddle, urine; occ. the act of making water.
- 1937, Eric Honeywood Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, p. 625:
- (British, figurative) Nonsense or a trivial matter.
- 1910 March 2, Rupert Brooke, letter:
- It's the alteration of the little words that makes all the difference between Poetry & piddle.
- 1910 March 2, Rupert Brooke, letter:
- (urine) widdle, see also Thesaurus:urine
- (urination) widdle, see also Thesaurus:urination
piddle (piddles, present participle piddling; past and past participle piddled)
- (intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act#Verb|act or work#Verb|work ineffectually and wastefully.
- 1571, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. Contayned in II Bookes. […], imprinted at London, […]: By Thomas Marshe, OCLC 932903701 ↗; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: Printed for R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761, OCLC 642424485 ↗, book 2, page 136 ↗:
- {...}} neuer ceaſinge piddeling about theyr bowe and ſhaftes, when they be well, {{...}
- 1991, Douglas Coupland, Generation X, p. 17:
- I watch Dag and Claire piddle about the desert.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of peck#English|peck: to attack or eat with a beak.
- (intransitive, now South US, often with 'with') Synonym of nibble#English|nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.
- a. 1620, Jeremiah Dyke, Diuers Select Sermons on Seuerall Texts..., p. 292:
- 2000 May 9, Myrtle Beach Sun-News, Sect. A, p. 1:
- As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food.
- (UK, AU, South Africa, Namibia, euphemistic slang, intransitive or reflexive) To urinate.
- 1784, cited in Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VI, p. 128:
- Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself.
- 1784, cited in Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VI, p. 128:
- (urinate) widdle, see also Thesaurus:urinate
Piddle
Proper noun
- A small river in Dorset, England.
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