piddle
Piss: urinePiss: urine.
» What are you piddle-farting around for? I could do that in 10 minutes.
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3 senses(Australia, UK, euphemistic, slang)Piss: urine.
(Australia, UK, euphemistic, slang)A piss: an act of urination.
(UK, figuratively)Nonsense or a trivial matter.
- liquid excretory product
Examples
2 sentencesWhat are you piddle-farting around for? I could do that in 10 minutes.
Why don't we stop arguing over these piddling matters and get to the issues at hand?
Origin
Unknown. Compare regional German piddlen, pitteln, pütteln, pühteln (“to pick at somethingUnknown. Compare regional German piddlen, pitteln, pütteln, pühteln (“to pick at something, pick at one's food”), dialectal German Pitzel (“small effort, small task”). Alternatively, perhaps originally from paw or put + -le (suffix forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement). In later use, a euphemistic diminutive of piss, though not directly related to it. The noun derives from the verb.
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