Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

piddling

/ˈpɪdəlɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English

Syllables: pid-dling
IPA: /ˈpɪdəlɪŋ/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

verb

present participle and gerund of piddle

Example Sentences

"After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money."
"the ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes"
"Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights."
"[…]last month the Pentagon spent $400mn to take a 15 per cent stake in MP Materials, a Nevada-based group that aims to be “a fully integrated rare earths producer”. That is a piddling sum."

Derived Forms

piddlingly

Synonyms

base contemptible floccinaucinihilipilificatious foolish for the birds futile frivolous idle ignorable immaterial inconsequential inconsiderable

Rhymes With

middling

Questions

How do you pronounce piddling?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɪdəlɪŋ/.
What does piddling mean?: Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

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