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Puddling vs Piddling - What's the difference?

puddling | piddling |

As verbs the difference between puddling and piddling

is that puddling is while piddling is .

As a noun puddling

is the action of making a puddle.

As an adjective piddling is

insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

puddling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of making a puddle.
  • The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
  • (canal engineering) The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
  • (metallurgy, historical) The first true industrial process to produce steel from pig iron.
  • A group of mallards (ducks).

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    Verb

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    • piddling

    English

    Adjective

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  • 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.

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