Piffling
6 definitions retrieved  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]  piffling adj 1: (informal) 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"; "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, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]  piffling [pifliŋ] quatschend  piffling kutyátérô mihaszna  piffling quatschend  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 Piffling related |
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