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Adjective: piffling  pi-f(u-)ling
Usage: informal
  1. 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
  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

See also: unimportant

Type of: act, behave, do, mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Encyclopedia: Piffle