quiddle
English
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editquiddle (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.