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Meanings of piffle in English

Portuguese
conversa fútil
Catalan
rucada

Trivial nonsense.

        conversa fútil
        Portuguese
        tagarelar
        Catalan
        xerrar
        Spanish
        charlar

        Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

            tagarelar
            Usage of piffle in English
            1
            I am much obliged for your help, but you are talking piffle.
            The Pawns Count
            2
            Listen: Instead of all this impossible piffle, let's start a real story.
            Jean of the Lazy A
            3
            One hoarse raucous piffle and three sharp decisive puffs for your arguments!
            One Third Off
            4
            He wasted money, energy and wrote piffle, was his damning verdict.
            The Guardian
            5
            The leader of the boys said: Aw, piffle, cut it out.
            The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ...
            6
            The thing that matters is that you are talking piffle, you poor fish.
            Right Ho, Jeeves
            7
            This all sounds like so much gossipy piffle, but I submit it's not.
            Wired
            8
            PERKINS: Now, we haven't time to argue a lot of piffle.
            Writing for Vaudeville
            9
            To talk about people keeping their places is ridiculous; in fact, it's piffle!
            The Buccaneer Farmer / Published in England under the Title "Ask...
            10
            Even I could see that this stuff was piffle; but it caught the boss.
            Roads of Destiny
            11
            Perhaps the tree-hugger brigade might research their material before burdening us with their piffle.
            The Irish Times
            12
            Professional estimates of reduced traffic on named roads are dismissed as "piffle".
            The Irish Times
            13
            All the rest is talk and piffle-theonly way to save is to save.
            Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
            14
            That's all piffle about Hoky having any confederate except me.
            Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
            15
            I'm not thinking of wigs, or paint, or such piffle.
            The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
            16
            Fine righteous piffle, indeed, from one with bastards in half the villages of Anjou.
            The Secret Eleanor
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