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PIDDLE
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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:
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...):
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
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