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Piffle

verb
(past & past part. piffled; pres. part. piffling)
1.
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.  Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle.
2.
Act in a trivial or ineffective way.





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"Piffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... of course I'm not. Do you mean to say you seriously intend to hand in that piffle ...
— A Prefect's Uncle • P. G. Wodehouse
... the gentlemen by whom I am now employed he said: 'Talent? Oh, piffle! Can you wear tights?' He ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... "Oh, piffle," he answered coolly. "What's the use talking like that. It's your game as much as mine. Where do you get off, if I go broke? You might have done a heap worse. Paul's a good head. A girl that hasn't anything but her looks to get ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... a way," said Laurence, gravely, "and that is to beat them to it and stand them off. All the rest is talk and piffle—the only way to save is to save. There are no halfway measures; also, it's a lifetime job, full of kicks and cuffs and ingratitude and misunderstanding and failure and loneliness, and sometimes even worse things yet. But you do manage to sometimes ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... said Jane, slipping out of her furs and cuddling into one of the great new chairs, "and I'm afraid I think they're fearful piffle." ...
— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
... "Lot of piffle," he heard Cardillac's voice from a great distance. "These freshers are always gassing." The electric light, seen through a cloud of tobacco smoke, came slowly back to him, dull ...
— The Prelude to Adventure • Hugh Walpole
... hear the Major shouting. "Balderdash! There's more fuss than if I had asked for an interview with the Prime Minister. Piffle! Balderdash!" ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... "Oh, piffle! You're too young a man to say a fool thing like that. If it's this note that's bothering you—" He stopped, because David had turned and Jim ...
— The House of Toys • Henry Russell Miller
... "What piffle!" she remarked. "How has Mr. Melhuish interfered? Why, this is the first time I've seen him since last night at the dance. Besides," she glanced at me with a half-whimsical touch of apology, "I hardly ...
— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford


Words linked to "Piffle" :   utter, bunk, verbalize, blither, meaninglessness, mouth, hokum, act, palaver, smatter, behave, do, talk, verbalise, nonsense, blather, speak, nonsensicality, blether, babble


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