Adjective: piffling pi-f(u-)ling
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
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]
Usage: informal
- Act in a trivial or ineffective way
"He piffled around all day without accomplishing anything"
- 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]
See also: unimportant
Type of: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do, mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize
Encyclopedia: Piffle