Piffle

Definition: Piffle

Piffle

Noun

1. Trivial nonsense.

Verb

1. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

2. Act in a trivial or ineffective way.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "piffle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references)

Synonyms: Piffle

He's having trouble with his piffle valve (Evil Under the Sun; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer)

Piffle & Co. (1971)

Love's Sweet Piffle (1924)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "piffle": a load of piffle. Additional references.

Albanian

pallavra (drivel, drool, jiggery pokery, palaver), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), broçkull (crap, humbug). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هذيان (babbler, hallucination, irrational talk, rave, raving), ‏هذى (maunder, rave), ‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffling, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), занимавам се с глупости, празни приказки (babble, eyewash, flim-flam, froth, fudge, gas, jazz, natter, palaver, patter, talk, tittle tattle, twaddle, wind, yack), дрънкам глупости (blither, burble, talk through one's hat, waffle, yammer). (various references)

Czech

kecat (drivel, gas), blbnutí, blbnout (clown, fool about, horse about, skylark), žvanit (babble, blab, burble, cackle, gabble, gas, natter, palaver, pettifog, prate, prattle, rattle, spout, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yap), žvanìní (cackle, chatter, chitchat, claptrap, double talk, flapdoodle, flubdub, gab, gas, prate, prattle, rigmarole, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wind). (various references)

French

niaiseries, fadaises (piece of nonsense), dire des bêtises, balivernes. (various references)

German

quatschen (blather, chatter, gab, gabble, jaw, natter, squeal, yap). (various references)

Greek 

μωρολογώ (drivel, drool, fudge, prattle, twaddle), ανοησίεσ (balderdash, claptrap, fiddlesticks, hooey, moonshine, nonsense, rubbish, stuff, twaddle), ανοησία (baloney, bunk, fatuity, fatuousness, foolery, foolishness, fooolishness, immunity, inanity, mush, nonsense, nonsensicalness, puerility, rot, shenanighan, silliness, tommy rot). (various references)

Hebrew 

שטות (absurdity, fiddle-faddle, foolishness, insanity, madness, nonsense, tomfoolery), �"בלים (foolishness, nonsense). (various references)

Hungarian

szamárság (apple souce, bosh, fiddlesticks, hogwash, poppycock, punk, shucks, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy rot), üres beszéd (blether, bunk, bunkum, flapdoodle, hot air, palaver, punk, talk), locsogás (blatter, driveling, drivelling, fiddle-faddle, gabble, garrulity, gossiping, jangle, lap, prattle, tittle tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, yack, yakkety-yak), hiábavalóság (fillip, futility, idleness, otioseness, uselessness, vainness, vanity), bolond beszéd, badarság (all my eye, bilge, bushwa, crap, drool, gas, guff, hoo-ha, nonsense, rot). (various references)

Italian

scemente. (various references)

Pig Latin

ifflepay.(various references)

Portuguese

tolice (applesauce, barney, blunder, bosh, bungle, fiddle-de-dee, flapdoodle, folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, gup, howler, ineptitude, ineptness, infelicity, moonshine, mush, nonsense, rot, silliness, simplicity, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, twaddle, unreason), dizer tolices (fudge, tomfool, twaddle), dizer disparates (twaddle), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, punk, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom), baboseira (slipslop, slush). (various references)

Romanian

prostie (bosh, fatuity, Folly, foolery, foolishness, fudge, idiocy, ineptitude, lumpishness, madness, mischief, oafishness, obtuseness, obtusity, senseless remark, silly thing, simplicity, stupidity, tomfoolery), vorbi ca sã se afle în treabã, vorbi în bobote, vorbãrie goalã (buncombe, flippancy, fustian, garrulity, jazz, rant, wash). (various references)

Russian 

глупость (asininity, crassitude, craziness, density, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, long ears, silliness, stupidity, unreason, unwisdom, witlessness), болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, footle, gab, gammon, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), болтать чепуху (blah blah, ramble), болтать пустяк (piffling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

baljezgati, baljezganje (drivel). (various references)

Spanish

tontería pequeña (sappiness), soltar disparates, disparate (absurdity, applesauce, blunder, Folly). (various references)

Swedish

tramsa (frivol), trams (bull, nonsense), strunt (balderdash, blah, bosh, fiddlededee, garbage, pipsqueak, punk, rot, rubbish, squirt), fianta. (various references)

Turkish

saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drivel, drool, flap, gab, gas, rave, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, waffle, yap), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma sapan konuşmak (blather, blether, talk nonsense, talk wild, tell a long rigmarole, twaddle, yak), boş söz (nothing). (various references)

Ukrainian

базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, blether, bunkum, burble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, gossip, jabber, prate, spiel, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tootle, twaddle, twitter, waffle, wind, yak-yak), діяти необачно (go out of hand), дурниця (absurdity, absurdness, applesauce, balderdash, ballyhoo, bosh, buncombe, froth, humbug, mush, nonsense, poppycock, porridge, rigmarole, rubbish, sappiness, shucks, slum, trash, tripe). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chuyện t� o lao (eye), chuyện dớ dẩn (falderal, folderol). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "piffle": piffled, piffles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Piffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: niffle, pfile, piaffe, piefle, pifel, Piff, piffee, piffie, pifle, pouffela. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fief, fife, file, flip, lief, life, lipe, pelf, pile, plie.

-3 letters: eff, elf, fie, fil, iff, lei, lie, lip, pie.

-4 letters: ef, el, if, li, pe, pi.

+1 letter: piffled, piffles.

+5 letters: pilferproof.