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Piffle

verb

(past & past part. piffled; pres. part. piffling)

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle.

Act in a trivial or ineffective way.

noun

Trivial nonsense. Synonyms: balderdash, fiddle-faddle.

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"Piffle" Quotes from Famous Books

... a line outside the churchyard wall, and saluted as they went by, though we had not read Toady Lion then. We have since. It is the only decent book I have ever read written by Toady Lion's author. The others are mere piffle. But many people like them. In Sir Toady Lion ...

— The Wouldbegoods • E. Nesbit

... mere savour would be something. Why should you keep on producing these cheap little plays they foist on you? Oh, I know you always score a personal success in the wahst of them, but they've never given you a Big character—and the play, outside of you, is always piffle. Of coss, you know what I've always wanted you to do, what I've constantly insisted in print: Rostand. You commission Rostand to do one of his magnificent things for you and we serious men will do our part. Now, ...

— Harlequin and Columbine • Booth Tarkington

... "Oh, piffle!" cried Joe with a laugh. "Excuse my slang, but I know just how it is," he proceeded. "You've made up your mind to go, and you're getting all the advance information you can, to spring it on me. I know your tricks. Well, you won't go ...

— The Moving Picture Boys at Panama - Stirring Adventures Along the Great Canal • Victor Appleton

... windows—good old English custom, fast becoming obsolete. Then I crammed for the Army. But, bless your heart, a GENTLEMAN has no chance for the Army nowadays; a pack of blooming cads, with what they call 'intellect,' read up for the exams, and don't give US a look-in; I call it sheer piffle. Then the Guv'nor set me on electrical engineering—electrical engineering's played out. I put no stock in it; besides, it's such beastly fag; and then, you get your hands dirty. So now I'm reading for the Bar; and if only my coach can put me up to tips enough to dodge the examiners, I expect ...

— Hilda Wade - A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose • Grant Allen

... see me Sherlock-Holmesing him across the high veld? Piffle! Give America that job! I'll go through German East and ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

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