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piffle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun piffle has 1 sense
- piffle(n = noun.communication) balderdash, fiddle-faddle - trivial nonsense; Array is a kind of bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality
Derived forms verb piffle2, verb piffle1
Verb piffle has 2 senses
- piffle(v = verb.communication) blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; Array is one way to mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
- piffle(v = verb.body) Array - act in a trivial or ineffective way; Array is one way to act, behave, do
Derived form noun piffle1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
Derived form noun piffle1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
piffle, v. i.
To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
piffle, n.
Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
piffle, n. & v. colloq.
--n. nonsense; empty speech.
--v.intr. talk or act feebly; trifle.
--n. nonsense; empty speech.
--v.intr. talk or act feebly; trifle.
Derivative
piffler n.
Etymology
imit.
THESAURUS
piffle
babble, balderdash, baloney, bilge, blabber, blah, blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, crap, drivel, drool, flapdoodle, gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, guff, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, jabber, malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, prate, prattle, rattle, rot, scat, shit, talk nonsense, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, twattle, vapor, waffle, wind
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