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quiddle

quiddle is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
  2. 2.One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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