Associations to the word «Piffle»

Wiktionary

PIFFLE, noun. Nonsense, foolish talk.
PIFFLE, verb. To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
PIFFLE, verb. To waste, to fritter away.
PIFFLE, verb. (dated) To be squeamish or delicate.

Dictionary definition

PIFFLE, noun. Trivial nonsense.
PIFFLE, verb. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
PIFFLE, verb. Act in a trivial or ineffective way.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope