Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To urinate.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To deal in trifles; spend time in a trifling way or about trifling or unimportant matters; attend to trivial concerns, or to the small parts rather than to the main; trifle.
  • To pick at table; eat squeamishly or without appetite.
  • To make water; urinate: a childish word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.
  • intransitive verb To be squeamishly nice about one's food.
  • intransitive verb To urinate; -- child's word.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun UK, euphemistic, slang An act of urination.
  • noun To waste time; often used as a euphemism for piss and followed by away.
  • verb UK, euphemistic, slang To urinate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun liquid excretory product
  • verb waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
  • verb eliminate urine

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Origin unknown.]

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Examples

  • No, I had to remember them then I had to rewrite them and now it's past midnight and I can't sleep in because I have to have the dog at the vet in the morning because currently his piddle is the colour of rust and no, now that you mention it, the words I rewrote aren't precisely what I had before, although they're close, and I'm really really pissed about it because I'm terrified I've left out a really important bit but can't remember because the words were too new and hadn't sunk into my brain.

    Curses! karenmiller 2007

  • Webster's definition of "piddle" is simply to dawdle, putter or urinate (but we won't go there).

    courierpress.com Stories 2009

  • Webster's definition of "piddle" is simply to dawdle, putter or urinate (but we won't go there).

    courierpress.com Stories 2009

  • The tie breaker in the Senate goes to the comedian, so we can just sit back now and watch what the Democrats do with their small election majority and watch them piddle it away until they are defeated in 2010.

    BREAKING: Minnesota's highest court rules for Al Franken 2009

  • It also begs the question, did someone piddle on your Birkenstocks here?

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

  • First they are afraid of a terrorist who can't do any harm and then they are afraid this terrorist will let the cat out of the bag and tell the whole world what cheney authorized and the piddle widdle bush went along with ...

    State of the Union: John King's Crib Sheet for November 15 2009

  • At least he is taking a family vacation, not using our tax revenue to go piddle on his "ranch".

    Conservative group targets Obama's vacation 2009

  • What I am wondering is if you have a person has a deer blynd and feeder and a few times throughout Feb - September they go out to their blynd to 'piddle around' (paint the stand, clean the inside, mess with their feeder changing throwing times, batteries, etc, mess with their game camera - and anything else they have out there in the off season).

    Human Scent and Sound - How Important Is It To Your Hunting Success? 2009

  • It also begs the question, did someone piddle on your Birkenstocks here?

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

  • It also begs the question, did someone piddle on your Birkenstocks here?

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

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