Meaning

(British, Australia, euphemistic slang) Piss: urine..

Definitions by Sense

1. (British, Australia, euphemistic slang) Piss: urine.
2. (British, Australia, euphemistic slang) A piss: an act of urination.
3. (British, figurative) Nonsense or a trivial matter.
4. (intransitive) (Often followed by about or around): to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.
6. (intransitive, now Southern US, often with 'with') Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.
7. (UK, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, euphemistic slang, intransitive or reflexive) To urinate.

Example Sentences

The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.

Piddle, urine; occ. the act of making water.

On the way out to the gardens, he had to stop for a piddle but was so weak he couldn't maintain his balance while lifting his rear leg.

It's the alteration of the little words that makes all the difference between Poetry & piddle.

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

I watch Dag and Claire piddle about the desert[.]

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.

As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food.

Word Forms

• piddles
• piddel
• pidle
• piddling
• piddled

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