Meaning of PIFFLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'piful
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- [n] trivial nonsense
- [v] act in a trivial or ineffective way
- [v] speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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| | Synonyms: | | balderdash, blab, blabber, chatter, clack, fiddle-faddle, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| | See Also: | | act, babble, behave, blather, blether, blither, do, hokum, meaninglessness, mouth, nonsense, nonsensicality, smatter, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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 twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or
Slang]
\Pif"fle\, n.
Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle.
[Dial. or Slang] ``Futile piffle.'' --Kipling.
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| | Related Terms: | | babble, balderdash, baloney, bilge, blabber, blah, blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, crap, drivel, drool, flapdoodle, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, guff, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, jabber, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, prate, prattle, rattle, rot, scat, shit, talk nonsense, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, twattle, vapor, waffle, wind |
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