Piffle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To talk or act feebly or futilely.
  • n. Foolish or futile talk or ideas; nonsense.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Nonsense, foolish talk.
  • v. To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
  • v. To waste, to fritter away.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle.
  • n. Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To do something (or nothing) in a lazy, ineffective way; idle; dawdle; talk idly or nonsensically.
  • To be squeamish.
  • n. Something trifling or nonsensical; trifling talk; twaddle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  • v. act in a trivial or ineffective way
  • n. trivial nonsense
  • Verb Form
    piffled    piffles    piffling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    do    act    behave    hokum    nonsense    nonsensicality    meaninglessness    bunk   
    Form
    piffled    piffling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    twaddle    piddle    piddling    trifle   
    Same Context
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