piddlen.

Brit.

/ˈpɪdl/, U.S.

/ˈpɪd(ə)l/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: piddle v.

Etymology: < piddle v.

colloquial.

1. Urine; an act of urinating. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > urine > [noun]

migeOE

addleOE

lantc1000

urinec1325

pissa1387

stalea1400

watera1400

stalingc1420

lage1567

urine-river1633

emiction1666

sig1691

tea1693

piddle1870

number one1902

pee-wee1909

pee-pee1923

widdle1925

wee-wee1937

pee1957

wee1968

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination

pissinga1398

urine1561

urination1599

staling1601

miction1663

urining1668

piss?1837

piddle1870

micturating1879

pee1880

pee-wee1909

wet1925

peeing1929

leak1934

Jimmy Riddle1937

wee-wee1937

tinkle1939

run-off1944

slash1950

No. 11965

wee1968

widdle1969

gypsy's kiss1971

Jimmy1971

whizz1971

gypsy's1972

void1980

wazz1994

1870 Cythera's Hymnal 77 The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 625/2 Piddle, urine; occ. the act of making water.

1959 E. Burgess Divided we Fall x. 115 Take the poodle for its piddle.

1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play x. 77 How could these red-haired brutes eat that filthy muck, not to mention the piddle and milk they called tea?

2002 S. Waters Fingersmith ii. 59 He went off for a piddle.

2. Nonsense; a trivial matter.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial

gnatc1000

ball play?c1225

smalla1250

triflec1290

fly1297

child's gamec1380

motec1390

mitec1400

child's playc1405

trufferyc1429

toyc1450

curiosity1474

fly-winga1500

neither mass nor matins1528

boys' play1538

nugament1543

knack?1544

fable1552

nincety-fincety1566

mouse1584

molehill1590

coot1594

scoff1594

nidgery1611

pin matter1611

triviality1611

minuity1612

feathera1616

fillip1621

rattle1622

fiddlesticka1625

apex1625

rush candle1628

punctilio1631

rushlight1635

notchet1637

peppercorn1638

petty John1640

emptiness1646

fool-fangle1647

nonny-no1652

crepundian1655

fly-biting1659

pushpin1660

whinny-whanny1673

whiffle1680

straw1692

two and a plack1692

fiddle1695

trivial1715

barley-strawa1721

nothingism1742

curse1763

nihility1765

minutia1782

bee's knee1797

minutiae1797

niff-naff1808

playwork1824

floccinaucity1829

trivialism1830

chicken feed1834

nonsensical1842

meemaw1862

infinitesimality1867

pinfall1868

fidfad1875

flummadiddle1882

quantité négligeable1885

quotidian1902

pipsqueak1905

hickey1909

piddle1910

cream puff1920

squat1934

administrivia1937

chickenshit1938

cream puff1938

diddly-squat1963

non-issue1965

Tinkertoy1972

1910 R. Brooke Let. 2 Mar. (1968) 223 It's the alteration of the little words that makes all the difference between Poetry & piddle.

1985 Science 22 Nov. 923/2 Obviously we did not have the same point of view on every dot and piddle.

2003 Times (Nexis) 10 June (section 2) 8 She would often say..that all this talk about love is nonsense, piddle, why do people go on about love?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

piddlev.

Brit.

/ˈpɪdl/, U.S.

/ˈpɪd(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s piddel, 1500s–1700s pidle, 1500s– piddle.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; compare -le suffix. Compare peddle v.², paddle v.¹ 2, 3, pittle v., tiddle v.², widdle v.², widdle v.³, and perhaps also tiddle v.¹, twiddle v.¹, diddle v.³, niddle v., fiddle v., quiddle v. In sense 2 perhaps after piss v.Compare German regional (Hessian) piddlen , (Westerwald) pitteln , pütteln , pühteln to pick at something, to pick at one's food, also (Fulda, Würzburg) Pitzel (noun) small effort, small task. These could formally be related to English piddle , although the further etymology of the underlying base would still be unknown. Since none of the words is attested early, however, any relationships must remain speculative. K. C. L. Schmidt Westerwäldisches Idiotikon (1800), s.v. pitteln suggests a derivation of the German words from Put , Puht , regional forms of Pfote paw n.¹

a. intransitive. depreciative. To work or act in an ineffectual or wasteful way; to mess about or around.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity

trifle?a1400

loiterc1400

tiffc1440

tifflec1440

to pick a salad1520

to play the wanton1529

fiddle1530

dauntc1540

piddle1545

dally?1548

pittlea1568

pingle1574

puddle1591

to thrum caps1594

maginate1623

meecha1625

pudder1624

dabble1631

fanfreluche1653

dawdlea1656

taigle17..

niff-naff1728

tiddle1747

peddle1755

gammer1788

quiddle1789

muddle1791

browse1803

niddle1808

poke1811

fal-lal1818

potter1824

footer1825

putter1827

shaffle1828

to fool about1838

mike1838

piffle1847

mess1853

to muck about1856

tinker1856

bohemianize1857

to fool around1860

frivol1866

june1869

muss1876

to muddle about (also around)1877

slummock1877

dicker1888

moodle1893

to fart about1899

to fart about (or around)1899

plouter1899

futz1907

monkey1916

to arse around1919

to play around1929

to fuck around1931

tool1932

frig1933

boondoggle1935

to muck around1935

to screw around1935

to bugger about1937

to bugger around1939

to piss about1943

to dick around1948

to jerk around1953

fart-arse1954

to fanny around1969

slop1973

dork1982

to twat around (or about)1992

to dick about1996

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 7^v Neuer ceasynge piddelynge about your bowe & shaftes whan they be well.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 182 Such as I haue marked to be good practitioners, do all piddle somwhat in the art of versifieng, and raise not vp their contemplation very high.

1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe ii. sig. C3^v My head must deuise something while my feet are pidling thus.

a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) i. sig. B4^v She..begins to piddle with Phylosophie.

1752 H. Walpole Let. 27 July in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) III. 16 I am always piddling about ornaments and improvements for Strawberry-hill.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 231 Instead of piddling for the little prizes..they might then hope..to draw some of the great prizes.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Piddle, to be employed in trifles or to do things ineffectually; to take short steps in walking.

1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxxxviii Fussily feeble, harmless..Piddling at so-called satire.

1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling iii. 25 I'm o' no mind to set around waitin' breakfast and you two piddlin' around in the woods.

1991 D. Coupland Generation X i. iv. 17 I watch Dag and Claire piddle about the desert.

†b. intransitive. Of a bird: to peck. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > feed (of animals) [verb (intransitive)] > dabble with bill

bibble1552

piddle1598

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iii. 217 As he [sc. 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.

1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd ii. xxvi. 7 This [Stork] piddles with his bill While young Sir Reynard did whole Rivers swill.

1799 J. Struthers To Blackbird vii Beware in that caff heap to piddle.

c. intransitive. To toy with or pick at one's food; to eat insubstantially; to nibble. Now U.S. regional (southern).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > eat small amounts

picklea1522

pickc1550

pingle1600

piddlea1620

a1620 J. Dyke Divers Select Serm. (1640) 292 Diseases..that make them eate nothing at all, or else they doe but piddle and trifle.

1661 G. Swinnock Door of Salvation 177 If thou shouldst sit at table and see a man pidling at his meat, picking and chusing.

a1761 J. Cawthorn Poems (1771) 112 Is there a saint that would not laugh to see The good man pidling with his fricassee.

1785 E. Montagu Let. 12 July in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) 330 The lovers sigh'd and look'd..and piddled a little on a gooseberry tart.

1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxvi. 38 And ‘entremets’ to piddle with at hand.

1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 211 Piddle,..to trifle with one's food; eat daintily without appetite. ‘Thank you, I'll just piddle with a biscuit.’

1907 Dialect Notes 3 225 Piddle, to eat daintily.

2000 Myrtle Beach (S. Carolina) Sun-News (Nexis) 9 May a1 As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food.

d. transitive. to piddle away: to waste, squander (time, money, etc.); to fritter away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > cause to be idle or inactive [verb (transitive)] > occupy oneself triflingly with > waste (time) in trifling activity

trifle outa1450

trifle1532

loiter1549

picklea1568

toy1575

trifle1587

rust1604

to idle (time) away1652

fool1657

to dally away1685

dangle1727

to piddle away1743

peddle1866

potter1883

putter1911

gold-brick1918

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste

spilla1000

scatter1154

aspilla1250

rospa1325

waste1340

spend1390

consumec1425

waste1474

miswenda1500

forsumea1510

to cast away1530

to throw away1561

embezzle1578

squander1593

palter1595

profuse1611

squander1611

ravel1614

sport1622

to fool away1628

to stream out1628

to fribble away1633

sweal1655

frisk1665

to fiddle away1667

wantonize1673

slattera1681

swattle1681

drivel1686

swatter1690

to muddle away1707

squander1717

sot1746

slattern1747

meisle1808

fritter1820

waster1821

slobber1837

to cut to waste1863

fringe1863

potter1883

putter1911

profligate1938

to piddle away1942

haemorrhage1978

spaff2002

1743 Enq. into Extraordinary & Advantageous Bargain 9 Those who have piddled away that Sum, would, perhaps, be glad of an Opportunity to ease us of a much greater.

1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. ii. iii. 151 An house, where she used to piddle away her leisure hours.

1826 Reg. Deb. Congr. 2 724 We see the best of the lands dribbled and piddled away without accomplishing the object for which they were ceded to the Federal Government.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §239/3 Waste,..piddle away.

1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff (1960) xvii. 160 Ruther had inherited money which..he'd piddled away.

1989 Sunday Tel. 10 Dec. 46/7 I am piddling away at hackery rather than doing a proper job making beautiful and useful objects.

2. intransitive and transitive (reflexive). colloquial. To urinate. Also in extended use.Frequently euphemistic for piss v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)]

migheeOE

pissc1300

to make water?a1475

stale1530

leak1598

urinate1599

minge1606

urine1607

water1631

stroana1730

to pass water1738

to pump ship1759

piddle1784

to make one's burn1788

pittle1801

pee1825

micturate1842

tiddlea1852

leck1922

wet1925

whizz1929

wee-wee1930

wee1934

widdle1934

to go (make) wee-wee1937

tinkle1943

void1947

to take a leak1969

potty1972

slash1973

wazz1984

1784 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 128 Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself.

1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) To Piddle, to make water: a childish expression; as, Mammy, I want to piddle.

1814 W. Scott Let. 10 Nov. (1932) III. 515 The last act is ill contrived. He piddles (so to speak) through a cullender, and divides the whole horrors of the catastrophe..into a kind of drippity-droppity of four or five scenes.

1836 B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled (ed. 3) Piddle,..this word is now scarcely used except as a child's word in the sense of to make water.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iv. i. 290 Fountain-jets..There grandly shooting upwards from the middle, While round the sides a thousand spirt and piddle.

1947 M. Lowry Let. May (1967) 142 Meantime we have been here quietly piddling in our pants with suspense.

1987 Golf World Aug. 21/2 It was pouring with rain and..there was him and me on the putting green with it piddling down.

1996 ikon Jan. 45/1 Jimmy gets kneecapped by Islamic militants for letting Cracker piddle on a mosque; you won't see that on the telly.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	piddle
释义	piddlen. Brit. /ˈpɪdl/, U.S. /ˈpɪd(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: piddle v. Etymology: < piddle v. colloquial. 1. Urine; an act of urinating. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > urine > [noun] migeOE addleOE lantc1000 urinec1325 pissa1387 stalea1400 watera1400 stalingc1420 lage1567 urine-river1633 emiction1666 sig1691 tea1693 piddle1870 number one1902 pee-wee1909 pee-pee1923 widdle1925 wee-wee1937 pee1957 wee1968 the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > [noun] > urination pissinga1398 urine1561 urination1599 staling1601 miction1663 urining1668 piss?1837 piddle1870 micturating1879 pee1880 pee-wee1909 wet1925 peeing1929 leak1934 Jimmy Riddle1937 wee-wee1937 tinkle1939 run-off1944 slash1950 No. 11965 wee1968 widdle1969 gypsy's kiss1971 Jimmy1971 whizz1971 gypsy's1972 void1980 wazz1994 1870 Cythera's Hymnal 77 The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling. 1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 625/2 Piddle, urine; occ. the act of making water. 1959 E. Burgess Divided we Fall x. 115 Take the poodle for its piddle. 1972 D. Bloodworth Any Number can Play x. 77 How could these red-haired brutes eat that filthy muck, not to mention the piddle and milk they called tea? 2002 S. Waters Fingersmith ii. 59 He went off for a piddle. 2. Nonsense; a trivial matter. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial gnatc1000 ball play?c1225 smalla1250 triflec1290 fly1297 child's gamec1380 motec1390 mitec1400 child's playc1405 trufferyc1429 toyc1450 curiosity1474 fly-winga1500 neither mass nor matins1528 boys' play1538 nugament1543 knack?1544 fable1552 nincety-fincety1566 mouse1584 molehill1590 coot1594 scoff1594 nidgery1611 pin matter1611 triviality1611 minuity1612 feathera1616 fillip1621 rattle1622 fiddlesticka1625 apex1625 rush candle1628 punctilio1631 rushlight1635 notchet1637 peppercorn1638 petty John1640 emptiness1646 fool-fangle1647 nonny-no1652 crepundian1655 fly-biting1659 pushpin1660 whinny-whanny1673 whiffle1680 straw1692 two and a plack1692 fiddle1695 trivial1715 barley-strawa1721 nothingism1742 curse1763 nihility1765 minutia1782 bee's knee1797 minutiae1797 niff-naff1808 playwork1824 floccinaucity1829 trivialism1830 chicken feed1834 nonsensical1842 meemaw1862 infinitesimality1867 pinfall1868 fidfad1875 flummadiddle1882 quantité négligeable1885 quotidian1902 pipsqueak1905 hickey1909 piddle1910 cream puff1920 squat1934 administrivia1937 chickenshit1938 cream puff1938 diddly-squat1963 non-issue1965 Tinkertoy1972 1910 R. Brooke Let. 2 Mar. (1968) 223 It's the alteration of the little words that makes all the difference between Poetry & piddle. 1985 Science 22 Nov. 923/2 Obviously we did not have the same point of view on every dot and piddle. 2003 Times (Nexis) 10 June (section 2) 8 She would often say..that all this talk about love is nonsense, piddle, why do people go on about love? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). piddlev. Brit. /ˈpɪdl/, U.S. /ˈpɪd(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s piddel, 1500s–1700s pidle, 1500s– piddle. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain; compare -le suffix. Compare peddle v.², paddle v.¹ 2, 3, pittle v., tiddle v.², widdle v.², widdle v.³, and perhaps also tiddle v.¹, twiddle v.¹, diddle v.³, niddle v., fiddle v., quiddle v. In sense 2 perhaps after piss v.Compare German regional (Hessian) piddlen , (Westerwald) pitteln , pütteln , pühteln to pick at something, to pick at one's food, also (Fulda, Würzburg) Pitzel (noun) small effort, small task. These could formally be related to English piddle , although the further etymology of the underlying base would still be unknown. Since none of the words is attested early, however, any relationships must remain speculative. K. C. L. Schmidt Westerwäldisches Idiotikon (1800), s.v. pitteln suggests a derivation of the German words from Put , Puht , regional forms of Pfote paw n.¹ 1. a. intransitive. depreciative. To work or act in an ineffectual or wasteful way; to mess about or around. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 7^v Neuer ceasynge piddelynge about your bowe & shaftes whan they be well. 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 182 Such as I haue marked to be good practitioners, do all piddle somwhat in the art of versifieng, and raise not vp their contemplation very high. 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe ii. sig. C3^v My head must deuise something while my feet are pidling thus. a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) i. sig. B4^v She..begins to piddle with Phylosophie. 1752 H. Walpole Let. 27 July in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) III. 16 I am always piddling about ornaments and improvements for Strawberry-hill. 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. iv. vii. 231 Instead of piddling for the little prizes..they might then hope..to draw some of the great prizes. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Piddle, to be employed in trifles or to do things ineffectually; to take short steps in walking. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic lxxxviii Fussily feeble, harmless..Piddling at so-called satire. 1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling iii. 25 I'm o' no mind to set around waitin' breakfast and you two piddlin' around in the woods. 1991 D. Coupland Generation X i. iv. 17 I watch Dag and Claire piddle about the desert. †b. intransitive. Of a bird: to peck. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > feed (of animals) [verb (intransitive)] > dabble with bill bibble1552 piddle1598 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iii. 217 As he [sc. 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. 1651 J. Ogilby Fables of Æsop Paraphras'd ii. xxvi. 7 This [Stork] piddles with his bill While young Sir Reynard did whole Rivers swill. 1799 J. Struthers To Blackbird vii Beware in that caff heap to piddle. c. intransitive. To toy with or pick at one's food; to eat insubstantially; to nibble. Now U.S. regional (southern). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > eat small amounts picklea1522 pickc1550 pingle1600 piddlea1620 a1620 J. Dyke Divers Select Serm. (1640) 292 Diseases..that make them eate nothing at all, or else they doe but piddle and trifle. 1661 G. Swinnock Door of Salvation 177 If thou shouldst sit at table and see a man pidling at his meat, picking and chusing. a1761 J. Cawthorn Poems (1771) 112 Is there a saint that would not laugh to see The good man pidling with his fricassee. 1785 E. Montagu Let. 12 July in J. Doran Lady of Last Cent. (1873) 330 The lovers sigh'd and look'd..and piddled a little on a gooseberry tart. 1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV lxvi. 38 And ‘entremets’ to piddle with at hand. 1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 211 Piddle,..to trifle with one's food; eat daintily without appetite. ‘Thank you, I'll just piddle with a biscuit.’ 1907 Dialect Notes 3 225 Piddle, to eat daintily. 2000 Myrtle Beach (S. Carolina) Sun-News (Nexis) 9 May a1 As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food. d. transitive. to piddle away: to waste, squander (time, money, etc.); to fritter away. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > cause to be idle or inactive [verb (transitive)] > occupy oneself triflingly with > waste (time) in trifling activity trifle outa1450 trifle1532 loiter1549 picklea1568 toy1575 trifle1587 rust1604 to idle (time) away1652 fool1657 to dally away1685 dangle1727 to piddle away1743 peddle1866 potter1883 putter1911 gold-brick1918 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > waste spilla1000 scatter1154 aspilla1250 rospa1325 waste1340 spend1390 consumec1425 waste1474 miswenda1500 forsumea1510 to cast away1530 to throw away1561 embezzle1578 squander1593 palter1595 profuse1611 squander1611 ravel1614 sport1622 to fool away1628 to stream out1628 to fribble away1633 sweal1655 frisk1665 to fiddle away1667 wantonize1673 slattera1681 swattle1681 drivel1686 swatter1690 to muddle away1707 squander1717 sot1746 slattern1747 meisle1808 fritter1820 waster1821 slobber1837 to cut to waste1863 fringe1863 potter1883 putter1911 profligate1938 to piddle away1942 haemorrhage1978 spaff2002 1743 Enq. into Extraordinary & Advantageous Bargain 9 Those who have piddled away that Sum, would, perhaps, be glad of an Opportunity to ease us of a much greater. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. ii. iii. 151 An house, where she used to piddle away her leisure hours. 1826 Reg. Deb. Congr. 2 724 We see the best of the lands dribbled and piddled away without accomplishing the object for which they were ceded to the Federal Government. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §239/3 Waste,..piddle away. 1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Payoff (1960) xvii. 160 Ruther had inherited money which..he'd piddled away. 1989 Sunday Tel. 10 Dec. 46/7 I am piddling away at hackery rather than doing a proper job making beautiful and useful objects. 2. intransitive and transitive (reflexive). colloquial. To urinate. Also in extended use.Frequently euphemistic for piss v. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > urinary system > urinate [verb (intransitive)] migheeOE pissc1300 to make water?a1475 stale1530 leak1598 urinate1599 minge1606 urine1607 water1631 stroana1730 to pass water1738 to pump ship1759 piddle1784 to make one's burn1788 pittle1801 pee1825 micturate1842 tiddlea1852 leck1922 wet1925 whizz1929 wee-wee1930 wee1934 widdle1934 to go (make) wee-wee1937 tinkle1943 void1947 to take a leak1969 potty1972 slash1973 wazz1984 1784 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 128 Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself. 1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) To Piddle, to make water: a childish expression; as, Mammy, I want to piddle. 1814 W. Scott Let. 10 Nov. (1932) III. 515 The last act is ill contrived. He piddles (so to speak) through a cullender, and divides the whole horrors of the catastrophe..into a kind of drippity-droppity of four or five scenes. 1836 B. H. Smart Walker Remodelled (ed. 3) Piddle,..this word is now scarcely used except as a child's word in the sense of to make water. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. iv. i. 290 Fountain-jets..There grandly shooting upwards from the middle, While round the sides a thousand spirt and piddle. 1947 M. Lowry Let. May (1967) 142 Meantime we have been here quietly piddling in our pants with suspense. 1987 Golf World Aug. 21/2 It was pouring with rain and..there was him and me on the putting green with it piddling down. 1996 ikon Jan. 45/1 Jimmy gets kneecapped by Islamic militants for letting Cracker piddle on a mosque; you won't see that on the telly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870v.1545
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