"raised one final, piddling objection to the plan",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Then, the pandemic reduced the schedule to 60 games and Eddie got a piddling 37%. \u2014 Star Tribune , 3 Dec. 2020",
"Millions of additional claims are expected to stream in from around the country over the coming weeks, while hiring remains piddling . \u2014 Patricia Cohen, New York Times , 23 Apr. 2020",
"What\u2019s particularly baffling is that Syria now produces a piddling amount of oil\u2014about as much as Utah. \u2014 Robin Wright, The New Yorker , 30 Oct. 2019",
"That will make the current economic uncertainty look piddling . \u2014 Daniel W. Drezner, Twin Cities , 15 Aug. 2019",
"In the battle for mind share, in the Trumpian quest to be part of every conversation, the Pixel far outweighs its piddling sales. \u2014 Vlad Savov, The Verge , 16 Oct. 2018",
"Of those, only four rather piddling victories went the liberals\u2019 way. \u2014 The Economist , 30 June 2018",
"Learning about other runners' struggles and triumphs helps put my piddling run into a bigger narrative, often allowing me to see myself differently within another story. \u2014 Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News , 21 June 2018",
"How to: Improve the Wi-Fi reception in your home The most-improved was Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which went from a piddling 2.68 Mbps download speed in 2017 to 59.62 Mbps this year. \u2014 Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle , 12 June 2018"
],
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"1559, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"\u02c8pi-d\u1d4al-\u0259n",
"\u02c8pid-l\u0259n",
"-i\u014b",
"-li\u014b"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"chicken",
"de minimis",
"footling",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"measly",
"Mickey Mouse",
"minute",
"negligible",
"niggling",
"no-account",
"nominal",
"paltry",
"peanut",
"petty",
"picayune",
"piddly",
"piffling",
"pimping",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115551",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"piddly":{
"antonyms":[
"big",
"consequential",
"considerable",
"important",
"material",
"significant"
],
"definitions":{
": trivial , piddling":[]
},
"examples":[
"I don't want to argue about piddly details.",
"there's only a piddly difference in price between the two paintings, so take whichever you prefer",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Byrne is still a United States congressman and that\u2019s no piddly thing. \u2014 Kyle Whitmire, al , 7 Nov. 2019",
"This information isn't written in the controller's piddly instruction manual. \u2014 Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica , 16 Nov. 2018",
"After Kilauea's 1924 summit explosions, the volcano entered a decade of piddly rumblings, followed by 18 years of silence. \u2014 Sophia Yan And Malcolm Ritter, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 June 2018",
"But sometimes self-denial is its own form of power, as you are no doubt noticing, crammed into that piddly apartment. \u2014 Helaine Olen, Slate Magazine , 25 Jan. 2017"
": to waste (something, such as time, money, an opportunity, etc.)":[
"We piddled the whole morning away doing nothing.",
"He piddled away his entire paycheck."
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
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"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-100302"
},
"pidyon haben":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a traditional Jewish ceremonial rite observed on the 30th day after the birth of a first-born male child of one not a Cohen or a Levite in which the father symbolically relieves the child of ritual responsibilities by redeeming him from a Cohen for a certain sum":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02ccpidy\u0259nh\u0259\u02c8ben"
],
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"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Late Hebrew pidy\u014dn hab\u0113n , literally, redemption of the son":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-161907"
},
"piddle around":{
"type":[
"phrasal verb"
],
"definitions":{
": to waste time doing something that is not important or useful":[
"We should stop piddling around and get busy."
]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-024534"
},
"piddle":{
"type":[
"verb"
],
"definitions":{
": dawdle , putter":[],
": urinate":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8pi-d\u1d4al"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Once March arrives, the sports stags wind down, everybody's a hoops expert and the neighbor that used to piddle in his yard returns from hibernation. \u2014 Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com , 21 Jan. 2018",
"Commissioners on Tuesday piddled around, failing to allocate money to LASER, the agency that could snag millions of dollars for the poor, elderly, disabled, uninsured and underinsured of Lake County. \u2014 Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com , 20 Sep. 2017",
"But his mistakes Sunday may not have looked so glaring if promising drives weren\u2019t piddled away into field goals. \u2014 Jourdan Rodrigue, charlotteobserver , 20 Sep. 2017",
"Dean, of course, is terrified of heights and tries to act all manly while piddling in his pull ups. \u2014 Melissa Locker, Time , 19 June 2017"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"origin unknown":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1545, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-153841"
},
"pidan":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": duck eggs preserved in a brine to which lime, ashes, and an infusion of tea are added and after several months coated with rice hulls":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"p\u0113\u02c8d\u00e4n"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Chinese (Pekingese) p'i 2 tan 4 , literally, covered eggs":""
},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-170218"
},
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"noun"
],
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"history_and_etymology":{
"Chinese Pidgin English pidgin business":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1836, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-175717"
},
"PID":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":{
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220711-225340"
},
"piddock":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a bivalve mollusk (family Pholadidae, especially genera Pholas and Barnea ) that bores holes in wood, clay, and rocks":[]
