Definitions for piffling

piffling pif·fling

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IPA: /ˈpɪf lɪŋ/

Piffling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in piffling (ffgiilnp).

Definitions for piffling

adjective

  1. of little worth; trifling; piddling:

noun

  1. nonsense, as trivial or senseless talk.

verb (used without object)

  1. to talk nonsense.

Origin of piffling

First recorded in 1890-95; piffle + -ing2

Examples for piffling

Symes curbed his irritation at the piffling objections of the Fly-trap King and responded tolerantly.

This was no piffling little Gizeh pyramid, no simple tomb for a king.

Maybe it's only a piffling pocket, and we'll get souped for our pains.

He might as well have sat by his fire and read a piffling novel.

Probably he did not want Beethoven to waste his time on piffling schoolboy exercises.

Well; first, I knew my daughter couldn't be the piffling lunatic who does your war cookery articles.

piffling business, I call it, this interfering with private correspondence.

Earthly marriages are piffling in comparison with that ceremony.

I'm merely telling you what will happen if father accepts that piffling baronetcy.

Second, I asked myself: What reason has she for pretending to be that piffling lunatic?

Word Value for piffling
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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