piddle

Meanings

1. Piss: urine.
2. A piss: an act of urination.
3. Nonsense or a trivial matter.

1. (Often followed by about or around): to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
2. Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.
3. Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.
4. To urinate.

1. A small river in Dorset, England.
2. A brook in Worcestershire, England.

Etymology

Unknown. Compare regional German piddlen, pitteln, pütteln, pühteln (“to pick at something, pick at one's food”), dialectal German Pitzel (“small effort, small task”). Alternatively, perhaps originally from paw or put + -le (suffix forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement). In later use, a euphemistic diminutive of piss, though not directly related to it. The noun derives from the verb.