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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Limiting fast-break points has been a factor: Oklahoma City averaged a whopping 17.2 fast-break points per game in the previous two rounds against Denver and Minnesota, but the Thunder have averaged a piddling 8.4 thus far in the finals. John Hollinger, New York Times, 13 June 2025 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 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 25 Jun. 2025.

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