PIFFLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piffle mean? 

• PIFFLE (noun)
  The noun PIFFLE has 1 sense:

1. trivial nonsense

  Familiarity information: PIFFLE used as a noun is very rare.

• PIFFLE (verb)
  The verb PIFFLE has 2 senses:

1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

2. act in a trivial or ineffective way

  Familiarity information: PIFFLE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIFFLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Trivial nonsense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

balderdash; fiddle-faddle; piffle

Hypernyms ("piffle" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Derivation:

piffle (act in a trivial or ineffective way)

piffle (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)

• PIFFLE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle

Hypernyms (to "piffle" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "piffle"):

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

piffle (trivial nonsense)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Act in a trivial or ineffective way

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "piffle" is one way to...):

act; behave; do (behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

piffle (trivial nonsense)