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piddle

pi duhl

  • n  liquid excretory product
  • v  waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
  • v  eliminate urine

  • After five of Rosenstock's feeble exhibitions of batonistic piddle-paddle, Manhattan critics howled him down, sent him scurrying back where he came from.
  • Please, let's not piddle away the tax on relief of Social Security taxes or any other pet scheme of Congress's.
  • Says a top Atlanta businessman who knows Callaway well: "He's not the kind to piddle around in this kind of stuff.
Quotes

  • William Golding in New York Times
    The truth is my deepest unconscious desire would be to show Marlborough,Golding wrote, "and then piddle on them."
  • Dave Freudenthal in The Casper Star Tribune
    I've always said that the problem with legislators is that they're a lot like puppies; they have to piddle on everything that goes by,Freudenthal joked. "I think we've proven that here today."
  • Harry M Wyatt in New York Times
    We're behind the power curve, and we can't piddle around,Maj. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, commander of the Oklahoma National Guard, said in an interview.

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