(n.) A kind of basketwork wear in a river, for catching fish.
Example Sentences:
Piddle
Definition:
(v. i.) To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.
(v. i.) To be squeamishly nice about one's food.
(v. i.) To urinate; -- child's word.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I'd be piddling myself laughing and couldn't get myself together, meaning there were many retakes.
(2) A pugnacious Nick Clegg really got the Remain side going when he accused outers of behaving as if Britain was just “a piddling little island”, always being bullied by Brussels.
(3) Why would she give up her cosy life as a columnist and novelist working from home in Notting Hill to be editor of a title she described in the documentary as "a piddling magazine no one cares about or buys"?
(4) Hunt is locked into a no-win confrontation about a piddling amount of cash that – if the ballot that goes out tomorrow supports strike action, as it looks as if it will – could cost hundreds of lives.
(5) We do the best we can all day, every day to produce great product on piddling budgets and they call that success.
(6) That the Thames triumphed over competition from the mighty Amazon and idyllic rural waterways such as the Piddle in Dorset, can be explained by the prize's focus on restored and well-managed rivers.
(7) Aside from that, we see only two solutions: grab our culture by the lapels and convince everyone it’s fine to sit down for five piddling little minutes to have a coffee, or convince people to go down the reusable route.
(8) But the culture budget is pretty piddling anyway and transport argues that it is supposed to deliver a lot of the infrastructure spending that the coalition is now committed to increasing.
(9) Later she says of the title: "In the real world this is a piddling little magazine that nobody cares about.
(10) "The Piddle and the Amazon don't have those environmental pressures – the sewage, the industry."