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    To piddle is a soft, slightly childish way to say you pass water from the body — to wee, to pee. Parents say it to small children (“Do you need to piddle?”), and people say it of dogs and cats (“The puppy piddled on the rug”). Grown-ups talking about themselves usually say pee or wee, or a more careful word; piddle sounds little-kid or a bit cute, and it takes the sharpness out of a body word. The noun piddle can mean the wee itself, though that is less common. Though actually there is another everyday use that has nothing to do with toilets: to piddle about, or piddle around, is to spend time on small, not-very-useful jobs instead of the real one. That “tiny and not important” feeling is also where piddling comes from. Piddle is mild, home language; it is not rude in the strong way piss is.

    尿尿(口語,偏小孩或寵物)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成Nobody is sure where it first came from. People compare it with old German words for picking at food or doing a tiny job; it may perhaps have grown from paw or put plus -le, a little ending for doing something over and over. Later it was used as a gentler, smaller-sounding stand-in for piss, though it does not actually come from that word. The noun came from the verb.

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

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Piddlename

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    A small river in Dorset, England.

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    A brook in Worcestershire, England.

piddlenoun/ˈpɪd.l̩/

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    slangPiss: urine.

    • The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.
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    slangA piss: an act of urination.

    • 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.
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    Nonsense or a trivial matter.

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

piddleverb/ˈpɪd.l̩/

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    (Often followed by about or around): to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.

    • […] neuer ceaſinge piddeling about theyr bowe and ſhaftes, when they be well, […]
    • I watch Dag and Claire piddle about the desert[.]
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    obsoleteSynonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.

    • 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.
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    Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.

    • Diseases... that make them eate nothing at all, or else they doe but piddle and trifle.
    • As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food.
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    slangTo urinate.

    • Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself.

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