PICTURESQUE PICTURESQUELY PICTURESQUENESS PID'DLE, verb intransitive [This is a different spelling of peddle, or from the same source.] 1. To deal in trifles; to spend time in trifling objects; to attend to trivial concerns or the small parts rather than to the main. 2. To pick at table; to eat squeamishly or without appetite.
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