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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ 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 twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or
     Slang]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  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 twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or
     Slang]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  piffling
       adj : (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse
             regulations"; "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, Mickey Mouse, niggling,
              piddling, petty, picayune, trivial]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  piffling
     a.
     (lb en informal) petty; unimportant
     vb.
     (present participle of en piffle nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  piffling
     a.
     (lb en informal) petty; unimportant
     vb.
     (present participle of en piffle nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  piffling
     a.
     (lb en informal) petty; unimportant
     vb.
     (present participle of en piffle nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  piffling
     a.
     (lb en informal) petty; unimportant
     vb.
     (present participle of en piffle nocat=1)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Piffling /pˈɪflɪŋ/
  الهذر

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  piffling /pˈɪflɪŋ/ 
  malicherný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  piffling /pˈɪflɪŋ/
  lächerlich, belanglos 
     Synonym: fiddling
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  piffling /pˈɪflɪŋ/
  quatschend
   see: piffle, piffled, piffles, piffled
  

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  piffling /pˈɪflɪŋ/ 
  1. महत्त्वहीन बात
        "She always comes to me with piffling complaints."

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  piffling /pˈɪflɪŋ/
  1. mihaszna
  2. kutyát érô

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 琐碎的,不足道的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 琐碎的,不足道的

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