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"4": "forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement"
},
"expansion": "-le (“forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "piss"
},
"expansion": "piss",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Unknown, although possibly originally paw + -le (“forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement”). In later use, a euphemistic diminutive of piss. The noun derives from the verb.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "piddles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "piddling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "piddled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "piddled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "piddle (third-person singular simple present piddles, present participle piddling, simple past and past participle piddled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "pightle"
},
{
"word": "widdle"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully."
],
"links": [
[
"about",
"about#English"
],
[
"around",
"around#English"
],
[
"act",
"act#Verb"
],
[
"work",
"work#Verb"
],
[
"ineffectually",
"ineffectually"
],
[
"wastefully",
"wastefully"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1598, Richard Barckley, A Discourse of the Felicitie of Man..., page 217",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak."
],
"links": [
[
"peck",
"peck#English"
],
[
"attack",
"attack"
],
[
"eat",
"eat"
],
[
"beak",
"beak"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"extra": "to attack or eat with a beak",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "peck"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"Southern US English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "a. 1620, Jeremiah Dyke, Diuers Select Sermons on Seuerall Texts..., page 292",
"text": "Diseases... that make them eate nothing at all, or else they doe but piddle and trifle.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000 May 9, Myrtle Beach Sun-News, Sect. A, p. 1",
"text": "As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially."
],
"links": [
[
"nibble",
"nibble#English"
],
[
"pick at",
"pick at"
],
[
"toy with",
"toy with"
],
[
"one's",
"one's"
],
[
"food",
"food"
],
[
"eat",
"eat"
],
[
"slowly",
"slowly"
],
[
"insubstantially",
"insubstantially"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, now Southern US, often with 'with') Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially."
],
"raw_tags": [
"with 'with'"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"extra": "to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "nibble"
}
],
"tags": [
"Southern-US",
"intransitive",
"often"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Australian English",
"British English",
"English euphemisms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English reflexive verbs",
"English slang",
"Namibian English",
"South African English"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1784, cited in Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VI, p. 128",
"text": "Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To urinate."
],
"links": [
[
"urinate",
"urinate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, Australia, South Africa, Namibia, euphemistic slang, intransitive or reflexive) To urinate."
],
"tags": [
"Australia",
"Namibia",
"South-Africa",
"UK",
"euphemistic",
"intransitive",
"reflexive",
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪd.l̩/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪdəl/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɪd.l̩/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪdl"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪdəl"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-piddle.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2a/En-au-piddle.ogg/En-au-piddle.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/En-au-piddle.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "urinate",
"word": "widdle"
},
{
"word": "urinate"
},
{
"word": "piddel"
},
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "pidle"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to urinate",
"word": "čurat"
}
],
"word": "piddle"
}
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