piddling
piddling is a polysyllabic word with 2 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, piddling is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofpiddling
- To eat with small, quick bites.
Example: "The rabbit nibbled at the lettuce."
- To bite lightly.
Example: "He nibbled at my neck and made me shiver."
- To consume gradually.
- To find fault; to cavil.
- To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
Example: "The birds pecked at their food."
- To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
Example: "to peck a hole in a tree"
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
Example: "He has been pecking away at that project for some time now."
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- To type in general.
- To kiss briefly.
- To throw.
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
- (Namibia) To urinate.
- Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
Example: "After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money."
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