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Riddling vs Piddling - What's the difference?

riddling | piddling |

As verbs the difference between riddling and piddling

is that riddling is present participle of lang=en while piddling is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun riddling

is material removed by riddling, or sieving.

As an adjective piddling is

insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.

riddling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Material removed by riddling, or sieving.
  • * 1832 , The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture (volume 3, page 989)
    • The good grain is riddled by hand into a heap at a convenient part of the barn, and the riddlings are thrown among the stuff which descends to the floor through the other spout.

    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)