piddle
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“They told me today I could piddle out there a bit,” Hayden said, pointing to the terrace outside her office, with its view of the Capitol dome.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2016
The pilots take snacks and "piddle packs" to relieve themselves into.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2015
As all before them they willfully extirpated: The Back of the Book and the Front and the Middle, Until all that was left was digital piddle, And Thought and Word lay dead and cold.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2014
“You can’t piddle around at 55 miles an hour unless you want to leave two days early,” Mr. Curtis said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2012
But the piddle runs down the wall and soaks into the old dirt floor.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
And who’s the lucky staffer who gets to clean up Tiaa’s piddles?
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2016
U.S. hockey piddles along, never approaching the prominence of Canada or Russia, Sweden or even the Czech Republic.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2014
The U. S. piddles along with a couple of thousand ounces.
From Time Magazine Archive
He works a one-horse farm for Mr. Cathcart and piddles a little at the planing mills at Adgers.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
I quits in 1925 and comes to Fort Worth and piddles at odd jobs till my rheumatis' git so bad five years ago.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Then, after it piddled around with some field goals and led 20-3, it went ahead and organized quarterback Stetson Bennett’s 57-yard touchdown pass flying up the right side to Jermaine Burton for 27-3.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2022
The old beagle piddled near the front door.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2018
But, no, Bill Oddie really did present an outside broadcast from a farm for BBC Breakfast, and he really did get piddled on by a cow.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2013
From 1865 until World War I it piddled along on Navy contracts, built only enough merchant ships to carry 15% of U. S. foreign trade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gran'pa Berry wuz too old to wuk in de field so he stayed 'roun' de house an' piddled.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration
I don’t know about you, but I could not survive on a piddling $4 million per year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
It’s exciting as spectacle, but on the substance every element of the preceding sentence is piddling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
We loved her when she was open and raw, giving unflinchingly monologues on small stages she often ran onto, with piddling crowds she had to win over.
From Salon ● May 27, 2023
There are few targets riper for satire than the customs and conventions of affluent suburbanites, and yet only a piddling handful of pop-culture parodies go for the jugular with the requisite precision or salutary bloodlust.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
Another time he tried a new variety—Rainiers—that wouldn’t take because he used too much nitrogen: lots of green, plants high and fluffy, but small hard fruit, a piddling harvest.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
