1. Trivial nonsense
   "He dismissed the politician's speech as pure piffle";
   - balderdash [informal], fiddle-faddle [informal]

1. Act in a trivial or ineffective way
   "He piffled around all day without accomplishing anything"
    
2. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
   "The old man piffled on about the weather";
   - chatter, palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle [informal], clack [informal], maunder, prattle, blab [informal], gibber, tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], vapor [US], rabbit [Brit, informal], jibber-jabber, witter [Brit, informal], twattle [UK, dialect], yatter [Brit, informal], yabber [informal]

Derived forms: piffling, piffles, piffled

Type of: acquit, act, bear, behave, bunk [informal], carry, comport, conduct, deport, do, hokum [informal], meaninglessness, mouth, nonsense, nonsensicality, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Encyclopedia: Piffle