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piddle

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piddle something away
Fig. to waste away money or a period of time. Please don't piddle all your money away. Jane piddled away most of the day.
See also: away

piddle around

Fig. to waste time doing little or nothing. Stop piddling around and get busy. I'm not piddling around. I am experimenting.
See also: around


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An excited or nervous dog has a wee piddle on the waiting room floor.
Remember the "shovel-ready" infrastructure projects of the 1930s like WPA (aka "we piddle around") where holes were dug only to be filled in again?
Workers at mills were also required to add to the volume by using the same pot when they went for a piddle.
 
 
 
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