piddle

1. 1.

   liquid excretory product

   “there was blood in his urine”

   “the child had to make water”

   Synonymsurinepisspeeweeweewater

   Broaderbody waste

Other forms of piddle

plural

piddles·

past tense

piddled·

present participle

piddling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about piddle

What does piddle mean?

piddle means "waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piddle?

piddle has 2 syllables: pid-dle. The stress falls on "pid". In IPA it is /ˈpɪdəl/.

What is another word for piddle?

Close synonyms include wanton, wanton away, piddle away, trifle, make. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piddle a common word?

piddle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.