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Piddling vs Niggling - What's the difference?

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Piddling is a related term of niggling.


As adjectives the difference between piddling and niggling

is that piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless while niggling is petty.

As verbs the difference between piddling and niggling

is that piddling is while niggling is .

As a noun niggling is

a sensation that niggles.

piddling

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
    • After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
    The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. — Milton.

    Verb

    (head)

    • niggling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • petty
  • * 1863 , Charles Darwin's letter to J. D. Hooker, 14th of July 1863
    • My dear Hooker, I am getting very much amused by my tendrils, it is just the sort of niggling work which suits me, and takes up no time and rather rests me whilst writing.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that niggles.
  • * 2009 , Jenny Parratt, Feelings of Change: Stories of Having a Baby (page 10)
    • Occasionally a paranoia or slight insecurity that is not based on reality will bring nigglings of that bad time.