piddle
verb (used without object)
to spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or ineffective way; dawdle (often followed byaround ).
had been piddling
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past perfect progressiveof piddle.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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His penny-pinching old father had run that business pretty well, had piled up money, but the son thought Henry VII had been piddling.
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