piddles

Frittering away hours

Piddles is a childish or informal word for urinates, often used with children or pets: The puppy piddles on the carpet every time someone comes to the door.

To piddle can also mean to waste time on trivial activities: She piddled away the afternoon.

The noun piddle means a small amount of urine or, figuratively, something insignificant.

urinates

pee

Urinate, informally

bladder · toilet · bathroom · leak · wet · accident · dribble · diaper · housetraining · puppy

dawdles

putters

Short-range golf clubs

  • tinkersMeddles amateurishly with mechanisms
  • fiddlesAdjusts nervously or aimlessly
  • fussesWorries over trifles

wastes time · loafs · dallies · lingers · procrastinates · idles · lollygags · fritters · dithers · messes around

Opposites
effort and productivity

piddlestoils

Works with great effort

labors · grinds · hustles · buckles down · focuses

scale and significance

piddlestackles

Engages or brings down

undertakes · commits · dives in

pace and urgency

piddlesrushes

Moves very quickly

hurries · races · speeds · hastens · scrambles

Phrases
Family

piddle, piddling, piddled, piddly, piddler

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG