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Piffle   Listen
verb
Piffle  v. i.  (past & past part. piffled; pres. part. piffling)  
1.
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)
Synonyms: chatter, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble.
2.
To act in a trivial or ineffective way.






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"Piffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Piffle!" he answered. "They can never take the ramp by frontal attack! The right thing to do is hold the flanks, and wither 'em ...
— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

... "That's piffle, Elizabeth." He sat down on the arm of a chair and looked at her. "Look here, what about this story the Rossiter girl and a few others are handing around about Dick Livingstone? You're not worrying about it, ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... about the drug store, for if you'd done any shooting in that neighborhood you would never have got out of town alive! No!"—he held up his hand warningly—"tell me nothing! But if we've got a murder behind us, we shall certainly be most circumspect in our movements. That's all piffle about Hoky having any confederate except me. And there's not a single one of the great comradeship on this shore—I know that; no one who knows the password of the inner door. You interest me more and more, Archie! I congratulate ...
— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... the word "kiss" might never be spoken again in this world. Not that he minded kissing Mrs. Red House's hand in the least, especially as she seemed to think it was nice of him to—but the whole thing is such contemptible piffle. ...
— New Treasure Seekers - or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune • E. (Edith) Nesbit

... little dumb-waiter spread for his supper and passed his hand over his face. 'Charley,' he says, 'I must have a shave first. The pangs of a guilty conscience,' he says, 'are piffle compared with the miseries of a beard. Have you ...
— Aliens • William McFee

... I delight to hear; Philosophic flub-dub Titillates my ear. Lovelier yet the spiffle In the picture hall; For the picture piffle Is the ...
— A line-o'-verse or two • Bert Leston Taylor

... cried the bookseller, "I'm perfectly delighted. It shows that my contention is right: people DO really care for good books. If an assistant chef is so fond of good books that he has to steal them, the world is safe for democracy. Usually the only books any one wants to steal are sheer piffle, like Making Life Worth While by Douglas Fairbanks or Mother Shipton's Book of Oracles. I don't mind a man stealing books if he ...
— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley

... on," said Meldon. "The rest of the article is mere piffle. The essential part is what you've read out, and I imagine it ought to pretty well clinch the matter. She drove to Euston, intending to travel from that station to some very quiet neighbourhood in which she had taken a house beforehand. Now where could you possibly ...
— The Simpkins Plot • George A. Birmingham



Words linked to "Piffle" :   verbalize, tittle-tattle, act, utter, verbalise, blither, bunk, blab, palaver, maunder, nonsense, hokum, blether, balderdash, twaddle, prate, nonsensicality, mouth, meaninglessness, blather, clack, blabber, fiddle-faddle, gabble, gibber, prattle, tattle, talk, smatter, babble, chatter, behave, do



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