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Adjective: piffling pi-f(u-)ling Usage: informal
- Small and of little importance
"piffling efforts"; - fiddling [informal], footling [informal], lilliputian [informal], little [informal], niggling [informal], piddling [informal], petty [informal], picayune [N. Amer, informal], trivial [informal], niggly [informal], piddly [informal] Verb: piffle pi-ful- 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] - Act in a trivial or ineffective way
See also: unimportant Type of: act, behave, do, mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize Encyclopedia: Piffle |