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piddling

  • 1 hacer esto y aquello de un modo relajado

    (v.) = mess about, pootle, piddle around
    Ex. If an obscure Mitteleuropean monk named Gregor Mendel hadn't spent the middle part of the last century messing about with peas, the world would be a very different place today.
    Ex. It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex. After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.
    * * *
    (v.) = mess about, pootle, piddle around

    Ex: If an obscure Mitteleuropean monk named Gregor Mendel hadn't spent the middle part of the last century messing about with peas, the world would be a very different place today.

    Ex: It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex: After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.

    Spanish-English dictionary > hacer esto y aquello de un modo relajado

  • 2 hermana

    adj.
    matched, suitable, having resemblance.
    f.
    1 sister, soul sister, sis, sibling.
    2 sister, nun.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: hermanar.
    * * *
    f., (m. - hermano)
    * * *
    = sister, sibling, sis.
    Nota: Abreviatura de sister.
    Ex. Quite obviously, as most children spend their infant years aware of very few people, usually members of their family, it is from them -- parents, brothers and sisters, attendant relatives and friends -- that they learn the primary adaptive lessons.
    Ex. The subjects were influenced about breast-feeding by their referents such as siblings and friends with breast-feeding experience, their mothers and husbands, and mothers-in-law.
    Ex. After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.
    ----
    * hermana adoptiva = foster sister.
    * hermana de sangre = blood sister.
    * hermana pequeña = baby sister.
    * hermana religiosa = sister, religious sister.
    * * *
    = sister, sibling, sis.
    Nota: Abreviatura de sister.

    Ex: Quite obviously, as most children spend their infant years aware of very few people, usually members of their family, it is from them -- parents, brothers and sisters, attendant relatives and friends -- that they learn the primary adaptive lessons.

    Ex: The subjects were influenced about breast-feeding by their referents such as siblings and friends with breast-feeding experience, their mothers and husbands, and mothers-in-law.
    Ex: After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.
    * hermana adoptiva = foster sister.
    * hermana de sangre = blood sister.
    * hermana pequeña = baby sister.
    * hermana religiosa = sister, religious sister.

    * * *

     

    Del verbo hermanar: ( conjugate hermanar)

    hermana es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    hermana    
    hermanar
    hermanar ( conjugate hermanar) verbo transitivo
    a) (en sentimiento, propósito) to unite

    b) ‹ ciudades› to twin

    c) ‹ calcetines› to match up, put … in pairs;

    ‹fichas/naipes› to match up
    hermana
    1 sister: mi hermana adoptiva, my sister who was adopted
    2 Rel (monja) sister
    3 ciudad hermana, twin town ➣ hermano
    hermanar verbo transitivo
    1 (sentimientos, objetos) to unite, combine
    2 (personas) to unite spiritually
    (ciudades) to twin
    ' hermana' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    así
    - calcada
    - calcado
    - caprichosa
    - caprichoso
    - celo
    - desairar
    - diferencia
    - encanto
    - hacer
    - latín
    - lengua
    - letra
    - llevar
    - macarra
    - negra
    - negro
    - os
    - otra
    - otro
    - pecar
    - preguntar
    - quedar
    - quien
    - salir
    - seguir
    - superar
    - tu
    - zaga
    - boca
    - confundir
    - donde
    - hermano
    - presentar
    - saber
    English:
    around
    - big
    - constantly
    - doghouse
    - elder
    - expect
    - sister
    - sisterly
    - tall
    - teach
    - twin
    - twin sister
    - cousin
    - half
    - she
    - sibling
    - worst
    * * *
    f sister
    * * *
    hermana n sister

    Spanish-English dictionary > hermana

  • 3 perder el tiempo

    (v.) = dawdle, mess around, pissing into the wind, mess about, faff (about/around), pootle, sit + idle, muck around/about, piddle around
    Ex. The title of the article is 'The challenge of the information country lane (and those who dawdle in it)'.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Best bet Internet: reference and research when you don't have time to mess around'.
    Ex. Though the national media will ignore his candidacy, the politically pure of heart will be able to vote their conscience -- and once again have a grand old Quixotic time pissing into the wind.
    Ex. If an obscure Mitteleuropean monk named Gregor Mendel hadn't spent the middle part of the last century messing about with peas, the world would be a very different place today.
    Ex. A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular, pootling, dawdling, pottering, hanging about.
    Ex. It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex. Unused school buildings sit idle as ravages of time take toll.
    Ex. Rather than spend the money on the navy we could stop mucking about with wind farms and build more proper power stations.
    Ex. After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.
    * * *
    (v.) = dawdle, mess around, pissing into the wind, mess about, faff (about/around), pootle, sit + idle, muck around/about, piddle around

    Ex: The title of the article is 'The challenge of the information country lane (and those who dawdle in it)'.

    Ex: The article is entitled 'Best bet Internet: reference and research when you don't have time to mess around'.
    Ex: Though the national media will ignore his candidacy, the politically pure of heart will be able to vote their conscience -- and once again have a grand old Quixotic time pissing into the wind.
    Ex: If an obscure Mitteleuropean monk named Gregor Mendel hadn't spent the middle part of the last century messing about with peas, the world would be a very different place today.
    Ex: A new report says that we waste three hours a day faffing around, doing nothing in particular, pootling, dawdling, pottering, hanging about.
    Ex: It's more advisable to have a cheap and skanky bike for pootling around town, the idea being that no-one would want to nick a nasty looking bike.
    Ex: Unused school buildings sit idle as ravages of time take toll.
    Ex: Rather than spend the money on the navy we could stop mucking about with wind farms and build more proper power stations.
    Ex: After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.

    Spanish-English dictionary > perder el tiempo

  • 4 perder el tiempo, hacer esto y aquello de un modo relajado

    Ex. After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.
    * * *

    Ex: After piddling around most of the morning yesterday, my sis, her husband Fred, and my parents came over to celebrate Christmas Day.

    Spanish-English dictionary > perder el tiempo, hacer esto y aquello de un modo relajado

См. также в других словарях:

  • Piddling — Pid dling, a. Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; applied to persons and things. [1913 Webster] The ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes. Milton. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • piddling — index inconsiderable, paltry, petty, puerile Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • piddling — (adj.) insignificant, trifling, 1550s, pp. adjective from PIDDLE (Cf. piddle) …   Etymology dictionary

  • piddling — [adj] insignificant derisory, little, measly*, niggling*, paltry, peanut*, pettifogging*, petty, picayune, puny, trifling, trivial, unimportant, useless, worthless; concepts 575,789 Ant. important, major, significant …   New thesaurus

  • piddling — [pid′liŋ] adj. insignificant; trifling; petty …   English World dictionary

  • piddling — [[t]pɪ̱dəlɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Piddling means small or unimportant. [INFORMAL] ...arguing over piddling amounts of money. Syn: paltry …   English dictionary

  • piddling — mod. inadequate; meager; tiny. (See also piss poor; piddle.) □ What a piddling amount of money! I can’t live on that. □ That is a piddling steak. I want a big one …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • Piddling — Piddle Pid dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Piddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Piddling}.] [Cf. dial. Sw. pittla to keep picking at, Sw. peta to pick.] 1. To deal in trifles; to concern one s self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • piddling — /pid ling/, adj. amounting to very little; trifling; negligible: a piddling sum of money. [1550 60; PIDDLE + ING2] Syn. trivial, insignificant, paltry, picayune. * * * …   Universalium

  • piddling — adjective Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless. After all the work Id done, he gave me a piddling amount of money …   Wiktionary

  • piddling — adjective small and unimportant: I can t be bothered with all these piddling details …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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