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piddle

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pid·dle  (pdl)
v. pid·dled, pid·dling, pid·dles
v.tr.
To use triflingly; squander: piddle away one's time.
v.intr.
1. To spend time aimlessly; diddle.
2. Informal To urinate.

[Origin unknown.]

piddle [ˈpɪdəl]
vb
1. (intr) Informal to urinate
2. (when tr, often foll by away) to spend (one's time) aimlessly; fritter
[origin unknown]
piddler  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.piddle - liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water"
body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product, excretion - waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body
Verb1.piddle - waste timepiddle - waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
expend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money"
2.piddle - eliminate urinepiddle - eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug"
urinate - pass after the manner of urine; "The sick men urinated blood"
wet - make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"
stale - urinate, of cattle and horses
egest, excrete, eliminate, pass - eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
ca-ca, crap, defecate, take a crap, take a shit, shit, stool, make - have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
Translations
piddle [ˈpɪdl]
A. N to have a piddlehacer pipí or pis
B. VIhacer pipí, hacer pis
piddle (inf)
nPipi nt (inf); to do a piddlepinkeln (inf)
vi
(person, animal)pinkeln (inf); (esp child)Pipi machen (inf)
to piddle aroundherummachen
piddle [ˈpɪdl] (Brit)
1. vi (fam) → fare pipì
2. n to have a piddlefare pipì


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