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Definition of Quiddle
1. v. i. To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
2. n. One who wastes his energy about trifles.
Definition of Quiddle
1. Verb. (intransitive rare) To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive rare) To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quiddle
1. to trifle [v QUIDDLED, QUIDDLING, QUIDDLES] - See also: trifle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quiddle
Literary usage of Quiddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"3. quiddle, to trifle, to discourse in a trifling way; ' Set out your bussing
base, and we will quiddle upon it', ..."
2. Autumn Leaves by Samuel Jackson Gardner (1865)
"... quiddle, as on "work, work, work." A poor laborer is waiting for his breakfast;
how lamentably the good housewife spins round and round, ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... allied in meaning and usage are conveniently grouped : eg, QUIB, QUILL, QUIBBLE,
quiddle, ... Set up your huffing base, and we will quiddle upon it. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1871)
"[Colloquial, US] Dawdle, subterfuge, prevarication, equivocation, trifles.
waste time in trifles, be busy about quiddle, ) n. [Colloquial, US] Trifler ..."
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