piddle — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Piss: urine.

   Usage

   • Australia
   • UK usage
   • euphemistic
   • Slang

   Examples

   The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.

2. A piss: an act of urination.

   Usage

   • Australia
   • UK usage
   • euphemistic
   • Slang

   Examples

   Piddle, urine; occ. the act of making water.

   On the way out to the gardens, he had to stop for a piddle but was so weak he couldn't maintain his balance while lifting his rear leg.

3. Nonsense or a trivial matter.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Figurative

   Examples

   It's the alteration of the little words that makes all the difference between Poetry & piddle.

Verb

1. (Often followed by about or around): to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

   Examples

   […] neuer ceaſinge piddeling about theyr bowe and ſhaftes, when they be well, […]

   I watch Dag and Claire piddle about the desert[.]

2. Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.

   Usage

   • Intransitive
   • Obsolete

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   As [Mahomet] was preaching... there commeth a doue flying towards him, & alighteth vpon his shoulder, and pidleth in his eare, looking for meate, hauing vsed her before to feede in his eare for the same purpose.

3. Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.

   Usage

   • Southern-US
   • Intransitive
   • often
   • with 'with'

   Examples

   Diseases... that make them eate nothing at all, or else they doe but piddle and trifle.

   As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food.

4. To urinate.

   Usage

   • Australia
   • Namibia
   • South-Africa
   • UK usage
   • euphemistic
   • Intransitive
   • Reflexive
   • Slang

   Examples

   Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself.

Noun

1. liquid excretory product

   Synonyms

   urinepisspeeweeweewater

   Broader terms

   body wasteexcretionexcretaexcrementexcretory product

   Examples

   there was blood in his urine

   the child had to make water

Verb

1. waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

   Synonyms

   wantonwanton awaypiddle awaytrifle

   Broader terms

   spendexpenddrop

2. eliminate urine

   Synonyms

   makeurinatepuddlemicturatepisspeepee-peemake waterrelieve oneselftake a leakspend a pennyweewee-weepass water

   Broader terms

   excreteegesteliminatepass

   Examples

   Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug