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Pittance vs Piddling - What's the difference?

pittance | piddling |

As a noun pittance

is a small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.

As an adjective piddling is

insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

As a verb piddling is

present participle of lang=en.

pittance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small allowance of food and drink; a scanty meal.
  • A meagre allowance of money or wages.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5
    • So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
  • A small amount.

    • 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)