piddle vs piddle away

piddle

verb
  • Often followed by about or around: to act or work ineffectually and wastefully. 

  • To urinate. 

  • Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially. 

noun
  • A piss: an act of urination. 

  • Nonsense or a trivial matter. 

  • Piss: urine. 

piddle away

verb
  • To piss away: to waste or squander time, money, etc. 

  • He piddled away three hours at the bus station waiting for Gabe to show up. 

How often have the words piddle and piddle away occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )