English Dictionary

piddle

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɪdl/

動詞

自動詞 廃用 南部 アメリカ英語 頻度副詞 with 支配 オーストラリア英語 固有名詞 南アフリカ英語 イギリス英語 婉語 再帰形 俗語

(intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully. / (intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.

日本語の意味

（非生産的に）効果なく、だらだらと働く、動く。 / （古風な用法）くちばしでつついて攻撃する、または食べる。

He tends to piddle around instead of finishing the project.

彼はプロジェクトを終わらせる代わりに、時間を無駄にしてしまうことが多い。

意味（1）

(intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.

[…] neuer ceaſinge piddeling about theyr bowe and ſhaftes, when they be well, […]

意味（2）

(intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.

As [Mahomet] was preaching... there commeth a doue flying towards him, & alighteth vpon his shoulder, and pidleth in his eare, looking for meate, hauing vsed her before to feede in his eare for the same purpose.

意味（3）

(intransitive, now South US, often with 'with') Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.

Diseases... that make them eate nothing at all, or else they doe but piddle and trifle.

意味（4）

(UK, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, euphemistic slang, intransitive or reflexive) To urinate.

Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself.

piddles （ present singular third-person ）

piddling （ participle present ）

piddled （ participle past ）

piddled （ past ）