piddle

Related to piddle: piddle around

piddle

1. slang To urinate. A euphemistic term typically said by, of, or to children. Mommy, I need to go piddle! Samantha, please don't let the dog piddle in the house!
2. slang To waste time idly or aimlessly. Almost always followed by "around." Stop piddling around and get to work! We were supposed to be working on our essays, but we just piddled around for most of the day.

piddle around

To waste time idly or aimlessly. Almost always followed by "around." Stop piddling around and get to work! We were supposed to be working on our essays, but we just piddled around for most of the day.
See also: around, piddle

piddle away

To waste or use up something recklessly, carelessly, or foolishly. A noun or pronoun can be used between "piddle" and "away." He piddled away his entire inheritance on drugs, gambling, and sports cars. We can't piddle our time away if we want to get this finished by the deadline!
See also: away, piddle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

piddle around

Fig. to waste time doing little or nothing. Stop piddling around and get busy. I'm not piddling around. I am experimenting.
See also: around, piddle

piddle something away

Fig. to waste away money or a period of time. Please don't piddle all your money away. Jane piddled away most of the day.
See also: away, piddle
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

piddle

1. in. to urinate. (Said of children and pets.) Please, Jimmy, don’t piddle on the floor.
2. n. urine. Don’t step in the puppy’s piddle.
3. Go to piddle (around).

piddle (around)

in. to waste time; to work aimlessly or inefficiently. Can’t you get serious and stop piddling?
See also: around, piddle

piddle

verb
See piddle around
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • piddling
  • Jimmy Riddle
  • Where can I can wash up?
  • Is there some place I can wash up?
  • go number one
  • piddle away
  • break the seal
  • go pee-pee
  • go wee-wee
  • Adam Henry
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When the very first overseas take over occured at Fulham in 1997, Mohamed Fayed sacked Adams as manager even though he had won the club promotion, without a pot to piddle in, just months earlier.
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Adnams, Banks' (based in Wolverhampton, with 1,119 pubs virtually all serving traditional ales), Mordue, Fuller's (who produce London Pride), Moorland, Wyre Piddle, Moorhouse's, Burtonwood, Greene King, Jennings, Felinfoel, Belhaven.
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They could be drinking cat's piddle and it would still taste of ice.
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It may be a lot tastier than the gnat's pee produced by the big breweries but I'd still think twice before putting something called Piddle in the Hole in my mouth.
Williamson: Mine's a pint of vulgar outrage