piddle
/ˈpɪd(ə)l
/informal
verb [no object]
Urinate.Finally, Mattie was amazed when a German Shepherd jumped across his fence and piddled in his front garden. Two minutes later his dog did the same thing....
- He added: ‘It went really well considering we set up cameras in a milking parlour and only one cow piddled on someone.’
- However, we find she has piddled on the bed, which is her particular place, again suggesting that she is feeling insecure about her tenure of the house.
noun [in singular]
1An act of urinating.Since I was awake at that hour, I decided to take advantage of that and do a nighttime piddle, and she tried to ensure that I didn't forget she was around by staying fairly glued to my feet....
- As I prepared for a piddle in the gloom, a voice from within an open cubicle warned: ‘It's flooded, mate.’
- At noontime I let Gus out for a piddle, without attending on him, much less leashing him.
1.1 [mass noun] Urine.I have finally picked myself up off the floor, wiped the tears from my eyes, cleaned up the puddle of piddle, iced the bruised knees, stitched my side…...
- Since the average crew lands after a 35-plus hour sortie with more than 80 full piddle packs and a full toilet, the Flight Safety office is pursuing a local modification to the toilet.
- It may be nasty, but when else will we ever get to see a man eat a snow cone soaked in his own piddle?
Phrasal verbs
piddle about/around
Derivatives
piddler
- Hopefully, female piddlers will be included on the agenda.
- Grandma says that life is too short to fret about what every piddler and diddler farting around the plaza thinks.
- He was not a lazy man, another settler reported, but ‘a tinkler - a piddler - always doing but doing nothing great.’
Origin
Mid 16th century: probably from a blend of piss and puddle.