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 Wordpiffle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
piffle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary