piddling (redirected from piddly)

pid·dling  (pdlng)

adj.

So trifling or trivial as to be beneath one's consideration.

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piddling [ˈpɪdlɪŋ]

adj

Informal petty; trifling; trivial

piddlingly  adv

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

piddling - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" fiddling, footling, niggling, picayune, piffling, trivial, petty, lilliputian, little colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech unimportant - not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"

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piddling

adjective (Informal) trivial, little, petty, worthless, insignificant, pants (informal), useless, fiddling, trifling, unimportant, paltry, Mickey Mouse (slang), puny, derisory, measly (informal), crappy (slang), toytown (slang), piffling, poxy (slang), nickel-and-dime (U.S. slang), wanky (taboo slang), chickenshit (U.S. slang) arguing over piddling amounts of money
major, important, significant, useful, considerable, substantial, valuable, tidy (informal), sizable or sizeable

Translations

piddling [ˈpɪdlɪŋ] ADJ → ridículo, irrisorio

piddling [ˈpɪdlɪŋ] adj [amount, job, detail] → insignifiant(e)

piddling

adj (inf) → lächerlich

piddling [ˈpɪdlɪŋ] adj (fam) → insignificante