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Webster 1913 Edition
Quiddle
Quid′dle
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Quiddled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Quiddling
.] [L.
quid
what.] To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
Definition 2025
quiddle
quiddle
English
Verb
quiddle (third-person singular simple present quiddles, present participle quiddling, simple past and past participle quiddled)
- (intransitive, rare) To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle
- He couldn't stop quiddling about the weather.
- (intransitive, rare) To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner.