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Piddling vs Pindling - What's the difference?

piddling | pindling |

As adjectives the difference between piddling and pindling

is that piddling is insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless while pindling is (dialectal) frail, delicate.

As a verb piddling

is .

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)

    • pindling

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (dialectal) frail, delicate
  • (dialectal) fretful

    • References

    Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged . Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (18 Aug. 2011)