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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

QUIDDLE

Quid "dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quiddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Quiddling.]Etym: [L. quid what. ]

 

Defn: To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

 

QUIDDLE; QUIDDLER

QUIDDLE; QUIDDLER Quid "dle, Quid "dler, n.

 

Defn: One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.