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Briggsy was a horrifying bowser of a Bryn Mawr graduate�a Philadelphia Main Liner, piddler in photography, a breeder of Scottish terriers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Cooper, James Fenimore