Piddler

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Pid´dler

One who piddles.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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While you're at it, bring back milk in glass bottles, three-wheeled cars and cobbled streets to drive them down, inventors in sheds, rotary-dial telephones, shops with ashtrays, travel agents, insurance brokers, Vesta "instant" beef curry and chicken chow mein, and household showers with all the water pressure of a middle-aged midnight piddler. Bring it all back.

The vinyl revival proves it: we love a bit of inconvenience

A self-described piddler, Haydel always has a project going around the house, or a new hobby, usually dedicated to the outdoors.

Cajun-country call magnate: driven by his father's passion, Rod Haydel turned his family's name into one of the most prominent in waterfowling

Washington Post critic Rita Kempley lambastes Bette Midler's decline from "queen of camp" to become a "middling piddler" of sentimental fare for which "even Oprah's audiences are far too sophisticated" (2).