PIDDLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piddling mean? 

• PIDDLING (adjective)
  The adjective PIDDLING has 1 sense:

1. (informal) small and of little importance

  Familiarity information: PIDDLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIDDLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(informal) small and of little importance

Synonyms:

fiddling; footling; lilliputian; little; niggling; petty; picayune; piddling; piffling; trivial

Context example:

giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction

Similar:

unimportant (not important)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)