'Piffling' definitions:
Definition of 'piffling'
From: WordNet
adjective
(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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
Definition of 'Piffling'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'piffling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- jerkwater,
- measly,
- Mickey Mouse,
- 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