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Noun: piffle  pi-ful
  1. Trivial nonsense
    - balderdash, fiddle-faddle
Verb: piffle  pi-ful
  1. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
    - chatter, palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle [informal], clack [informal], maunder, prattle, blab [informal], gibber, tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], rabbit [Brit, informal], vapor [US], twattle [UK, dialect], witter [Brit, informal], yabber [Brit, informal], yatter [Brit, informal]
     
  2. Act in a trivial or ineffective way

Derived forms: piffled, piffling, piffles

Type of: act, behave, bunk [informal], do, hokum [informal], meaninglessness, mouth, nonsense, nonsensicality, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Encyclopedia: Piffle