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单词 piddling
释义
Piddling
vverb.stativewaste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
Synset:piddle piddle away trifle wanton wanton away
Derivationally Related Form:trifling
Hypernyms:drop expend spend
Inherited Hypernyms:piddlespendpaygivetransfer
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s
vverb.bodyeliminate urine
Synset:make make water micturate pass water pee pee-pee piddle piss puddle relieve oneself spend a penny take a leak urinate wee wee-wee
Examples:
  • Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug
Derivationally Related Form:pissingmicturitionpiddlepeepissurinepeeingurinatorurinationpisser
Hypernyms:egest eliminate excrete pass
Inherited Hypernyms:makeexcreteexhaust
Direct Hyponyms:stalewet
Full Troponyms:stalewet
Sentence Frame:Something ---s | Somebody ---s
adj satadj.all(informal) small and of little importance
Domain Usage:colloquialism
Synset:fiddling footling lilliputian little niggling petty picayune piffling trivial
Examples:
  • a fiddling sum of money
  • a footling gesture
  • our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  • a little (or small) matter
  • a dispute over niggling details
  • limited to petty enterprises
  • piffling efforts
  • giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
Antonyms:important
Derivationally Related Form:triviapettinesstrivializelittlenesstriviality
Inherited Hypernyms:fiddling
Similar to:unimportant
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