piddling
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɪdəlɪŋ/
piddling (not comparable)
- Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
- After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
- 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation:
- the ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes
- French: insignifiant
- Italian: frivolo, insignificante, ozioso, inutile
- French: négligeable
- French: sans valeur
- French: trivial
- French: inutile
- present participle of piddle#English|piddle
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