Piffling

Definition: Piffling

Piffling

Adjective

1. (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction".

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Date "piffling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1917. (references)

Synonyms: Piffling

Arabic 

‏هراء (balderdash, baloney, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, claptrap, drivel, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, fudge, hocus pocus, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, ramble, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, slush, tosh, trash, trumpery, wind), ‏عبث (dalliance, fiddlestick, flightiness, flirtation, frivolity, futility, loiter, mess up, moonshine, mosey, palter, piddle, pointless, potter, shallowness, toy, trifle, twiddle), ‏شىء تافه (bagatelle, bauble, bosh, damn, duffer, dust, fluff, frivolity, froth, gewgaw, hog, joke, small beer, tripe, triviality). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, loose, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty). (various references)

Czech

smìšný (antic, derisory, facetious, funny, humorous, laughable, ludicrous, quizzical, ridiculous, risible), legraèní (amusing, chaffy, comic, comical, facetious, funny, good, humorous). (various references)

French

insignifiant (picayune, piddling), futile (piddling), frivole (pimping). (various references)

German

quatschend (blathering, juicy, yapping). (various references)

Hebrew 

של מ�" בכך (trifling), בטל (goner, idle, invalid, null, off, unoccupied, vacant, void). (various references)

Hungarian

mihaszna (reprobate, rotter, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag), kutyát érő. (various references)

Italian

ingiustificante, futile (futile, nugatory, peddling, shallow, trifling, trivial). (various references)

Manx

lane boghtynid. (various references)

Pig Latin

ifflingpay.(various references)

Romanian

tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, Dotty, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker), neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, slender, slight, small, trifling, trivial), mãrunt (chopping, incidental, light, loose, mincing, paltry, peddling, petty, small, tiny, trifling), idiot (cretinous, fool, half wit, idiot, idiotic, idiotical, idiotically, lunkhead, mooncalf, mutt, nincompoop, numskull, senseless, soft, stick, stupid), fãrã valoare (cheap, frothy, good for nothing, halfpenny, indifferent, mean, measly, odd trifles, pale, simple, threepenny, trashy, trivial, trumpery, useless, void, worthless), fãrã sens (frothy, inane, meaningless, nonsensical, pointless), absurd (absurd, absurdity, absurdly, Dotty, fabulous, foolish, impossible, inept, irrational, ludicrous, mad, mindless, nonsensical, preposterous, recondite, ridiculous, silly, stupid, temerarious, unreasonable). (various references)

Russian 

болтать пустяк (piffle). (various references)

Spanish

trivial (banal, commonplace, dismal, fiddling, footling, mundane, platitudinous, sapless, trite, trivial), disparatado (absurd, crazy, goofy, mad, nonsensical, unrealistic, wild, zany). (various references)

Ukrainian

нікчемний (contemptible, futile, gewgaw, no-account, not worth a damn, paltry, punk, riff raff, scrubby, shabby, trifling, unworthy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

t� o lao lặt vặt, nhảm nhí (rubbishy), nhỏ mọn (fiddling, flimsy, mingy, petty, potty). (various references)

Misspellings

"Piffling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pfafflin, pifling. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fifing, filing, piling.

-3 letters: fling, gliff, lipin, piing.

-4 letters: flip, ling, pili, ping.

-5 letters: fig, fil, fin, gin, gip, iff, lin, lip, nil, nip, pig, pin.