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piffling a. 琐碎的,不足道的 琐碎的,不足道的 piffling adj 1: ( informal) 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"; " 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" [ synonym: { fiddling}, { footling}, { lilliputian}, { little}, { niggling}, { piddling}, { piffling}, { petty}, { picayune}, { trivial}] Piffle \ Pif" fle\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Piffled}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Piffling}.] To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to talk nonsense or about trivial matters; to twaddle; piddle. [ Dial. or Slang] Syn: chatter, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. WordNet 1. 5] 2. To act in a trivial or ineffective way. [ WordNet 1. 5] 22 Moby Thesaurus words for " piffling": Mickey Mouse, jerkwater, measly, niggling, one- horse, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, pimping, poky, punk, puny, small- beer, small- time, tinhorn, trifling, trivial, two- bit, two- by- four
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