📖 Definitions of "Piddling"
- 1
To eat with small, quick bites.
"The rabbit nibbled at the lettuce."
- 2
To bite lightly.
"He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver."
- 3
To consume gradually.
- 4
To find fault; to cavil.
- 1
To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
"The birds pecked at their food."
- 2
To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
"to peck a hole in a tree"
- 3
To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- 4
To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- 1
To throw.
- 2
To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- 1
Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
- 2
(Namibia) To urinate.
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