Definition of "quiddle" []

• To talk nonsense or speak vaguely, to waffle (verb)
• To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling superficial manner. (verb)

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• "Maclay found the Senate was afflicted with “a rage of speaking,” while Ames complained that his colleagues in the House “correct spelling or erase may and insert shall, and quiddle in a manner which provokes me.”"
• "The Englishman is very petulant and precise about his accommodation at inns, and on the roads; a quiddle about his toast and his chop, and every species of convenience, and loud and pungent in his expressions of impatience at any neglect."
• "She like to quiddle about the china-closet, prepare the salt-cellars, put the spoons straight on the table; and every day went round the parlor with her brush, dusting chairs and tables."