piddle

verb

pid·​dle ˈpi-dᵊl How to pronounce piddle (audio)
piddled; piddling ˈpid-liŋ How to pronounce piddle (audio)
ˈpi-dᵊl-iŋ

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The warm-up supercar was the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, which makes a piddling 518 hp but is revered as one of the best pound-for-pound driver’s cars in the world. Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 13 Mar. 2025 In short, its core competency needs to be responding to predictable natural disasters rather than virtue-signaling about climate change that its expensive (but piddling in the global scheme of things) green-energy initiatives are powerless to affect one way or the other. The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025 When Hemingway returned to in-office work after his European sojourn, Hindmarsh immediately decided that Hemingway needed his ego punctured and gave his new staffer a series of piddling assignments. Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 6 Jan. 2025 There’s even a humbling sequence set in the real Carrara, where, against the quarry’s raw splendor, the mighty modern excavators look as piddling as Hot Wheels on the basement stairs. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for piddle

Word History

Etymology

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First Known Use

1545, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of piddle was in 1545

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“Piddle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piddle. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.

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