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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
piffle \pif"fle\, v. i. imp. p. p. piffled; p. pr. vb. n.
piffling.
to be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk
triflingly or ineffectively; to talk nonsense or about
trivial matters; to twaddle; piddle. dial. or slang
syn: chatter, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack,
maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble.
webster 1913 suppl. + wordnet 1.5
2. to act in a trivial or ineffective way.
wordnet 1.5
see also:
piffled piffling
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
piffling
adj : informal terms small and of little importance; "a fiddling
sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
lilliputian compared with those of countries that are
at war"; "a little or small matter"; "mickey mouse
regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details";
"limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts";
"giving a police officer a free meal may be against the
law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" syn: fiddling,
footling, lilliputian, little, mickey mouse, niggling,
piddling, petty, picayune, trivial
see also:
fiddling footling lilliputian little mickey mouse niggling
piddling petty picayune trivial
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 moby thesaurus words for "piffling":
mickey mouse, jerkwater, measly, niggling, one-horse, peddling,
pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pimping, poky,
punk, puny, small-beer, small-time, tinhorn, trifling, trivial,
two-bit, two-by-four
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