piddle
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He had an answer for his previous tendency to piddle around some and go wayward in the stretch, as in the Haskell at Monmouth in New Jersey in July.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2020
The pilots take snacks and "piddle packs" to relieve themselves into.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2015
Now, most animals would have lost control of their bowels in the wake of that smack and yell, but this Luxi bull didn’t so much as piddle.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2012
I don't care if every Mac product comes with a magic button on the side that makes it piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 28, 2011
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
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
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
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
I knew — I knew what was coming, when we bid on the Byfleet's keel — They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel!
From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling
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
And if a piddling portion of materials are covered by attorney-client privilege, there’s no need to halt the investigation as a whole to identify them.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2022
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
