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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Piffle \Pif"fle\, n.
Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle.
[Dial. or Slang] "Futile piffle." --Kipling.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
piffle
n : trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle]
v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle,
clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle,
blabber, gabble]
2: act in a trivial or ineffective way
WordNet (r) 2.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "piffle":
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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