piffle

1. 1.

   trivial nonsense

   Synonymsbalderdashfiddle-faddle

   Broadernonsense

Other forms of piffle

plural

piffles·

past tense

piffled·

present participle

piffling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about piffle

What does piffle mean?

piffle means "speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piffle?

piffle has 2 syllables: pif-fle. The stress falls on "fle".

What is another word for piffle?

Close synonyms include chatter, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is piffle a common word?

piffle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.