piddle

Fritter away hours

Piddle means to urinate, used especially with children or pets: Does the puppy need to go piddle?

The word is deliberately mild and childish.

Piddle also means to waste time on trivial matters: Stop piddling around and get to work.

To piddle away time or money is to squander it in small, insignificant amounts.

urinate

pee

Urinate, informally

bathroom · toilet · restroom · lavatory · bladder · urination · void · leak · micturate · go

dawdle

procrastinate

Delay action unnecessarily

putter · fiddle · tinker · loiter · idle · fritter · waste time · kill time · fool around · mess around

trivial

trifle

Insignificant matter or thing

negligible · small · minor · inconsequential · unimportant · measly · meager · puny · dinky · piffling

Categories
Opposites
effort and productivity

piddlework

Effort toward a goal

toil · hustle · strive · grind · produce

urination formality

piddleurinate

Expel bodily fluid

micturate · void · relieve oneself · pass water

Phrases
Family

piddling, piddled, piddles

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG