What does "quiddle" mean?
Quiddle: To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
Additional senses
- 2.One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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