piddler
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a word derived from
piddle.
piddleverb (used without object)to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed byaround ).
Example Sentences
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It was silly drama about a woman with a weak heart who died after she learned that her husband, whom she had supposed a musical genius, was in reality an esthetic piddler.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sargeant Hollister, who saw him face to face, as it might be, says it's Beelzeboob, and no piddler, unless it may be in a small matter of lies and thefts, and sich wickedness.
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper