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PIDDLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Liquid excretory product

Example:

the child had to make water

Synonyms:

pee; piddle; piss; urine; water; weewee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("piddle" is a kind of...):

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product (waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body)

Derivation:

piddle (eliminate urine)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eliminate urine

Example:

Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

Synonyms:

make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "piddle" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Verb group:

urinate (pass after the manner of urine)

ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit (have a bowel movement)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "piddle"):

wet (make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating)

stale (urinate, of cattle and horses)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

piddle (liquid excretory product)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

Synonyms:

piddle; piddle away; trifle; wanton; wanton away

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "piddle" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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