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DEFINITIONS
NOUN
1. a fussy, over-particular, or fastidious person; one hard to satisfy
in trifling matters of diet, etc.; one who wastes his energy about trifles ...1856 Eng. & Amer. dial.
2. a pimple ...B1900 Eng. dial.

VERB
1. to discourse in a trifling way ...1567 now chiefly Eng. & Amer. dial.
2. to trifle or play with ...a1652 obs.
3. to trifle, to waste time; to be anxious about trifles; to fuss about,
to fidget ...1832 now chiefly Eng. & Amer. dial.
4. to suck food in the mouth; to chew ...B1900 Eng. dial.
5. to suck, as a child does his thumb ...B1900 Eng. dial.
6. to squeeze with the fingers ...B1900 Eng. dial.
7. to crawl on the flesh ...1909 Amer. dial.
8. to give away a secret or tell a piece of news too soon
...1969 Amer. dial. 

1567 - The Excellent Comedie of Two the Moste Faithfullest Freendes, Damon and Pithias; Richard Edwards;
see Example below

From: A Select Collection of Old English Plays
Originally Published by Robert Dodsley, 1744
Fourth Edition
Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt
Volume the Fourth, 1874
Damon and Pithias, by Richard Edwards
P. 81