Definition of PIFFLE

piffle

Noun

  • trivial nonsense
  • Nonsense, foolish talk.

Verb

Verb Forms: piffled, piffling, piffles

  • To talk or act in a trivial, nonsensical manner; to babble.
  • speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  • act in a trivial or ineffective way
  • To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
  • To waste, to fritter away.
  • To be squeamish or delicate.

Examples

  • His opponent would PIFFLE endlessly, trying to distract him from his Words With Friends strategy.

Origin / Etymology

Unknown, 1847. Perhaps blend of piddle + trifle, perhaps puff (“(onomatopoeia, puff of air)”) + -le (“diminutive”).

Synonyms

balderdash, blab, blabber, chatter, clack, fiddle-faddle, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, trifle, tripe, tush, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad

Scrabble Score: 14

piffle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
piffle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
piffle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

piffle: valid Words With Friends Word