piffle

piffle

1. noun, slang Foolish, untrue, or trivial words; nonsense; rubbish. He started talking utter piffle during his presentation, so I stopped paying attention. I tried to read your essay, but it was such piffle that I couldn't even follow along. She always starts spouting piffle about the president whenever she has a couple drinks.
2. verb, slang To utter foolish, trivial, or feeble nonsense. The assistant manager piffled something about not having the proper resources to manage the team, but I could tell the CEO wasn't buying it. Your term paper started out really strong, but it fell apart when you started piffling about things without any real evidence or conviction in the second half.

piffled

slang Drunk. I was pretty piffled by the time we left the bar. He just spends every evening getting piffled with his friends.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

piffle

(ˈpɪflæ)
1. n. nonsense. What utter piffle!
2. exclam. a mild exclamation or expression of distress. (Usually Piffle!) She finished her story, and I looked her straight in the eye and said, “Piffle!”

piffled

(ˈpɪflæd)
mod. alcohol intoxicated. Three glasses of booze and she was totally piffled.
See also: piffle
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • piffled
  • mickey mouse
  • garbage
  • kack
  • kak
  • kacked
  • kacks
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PIFFLE The Mirror revealed pictures of Marina packing her bags into a car outside the PS20million flat on July 26.
has no such subtext, its piffle having as little to do with race as does a box of popcorn.
It's not scientific, and the list sometimes includes some highly personal piffle, but it works.
"We've heard a lot of piffle from Sister Judith over the years," she tells Finn in a private moment, "but lately I've been fearing for her sanity."
Cynical political handlers may dismiss all these points as academic piffle. They like to repeat the old joke that sincerity is the key to winning elections, and if you can fake that, you've got it made.
"What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days.
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This is due to legislation dating back to the turn of the century that requires all hackney cabs to be able to accommodate a man wearing a top hat, have space enough for two bales of hay and other pensionable piffle. As one who has sat in countless taxis and listened to cabbies complaining about how much the TX models cost, I'm throwing my top hat into the air as this marks the end of one of Britain's last motoring monopolies.
In the end, it's easier to bash McDonald's than wayward MPs, easier to print feelgood stories about Catholic social action in foreign countries than call Canadian prime ministers to account as practising Catholics, easier to be a prophet of piffle than a sign of contradiction--which is what every Catholic news publication should be in that old watchdog tradition.
The reason this piffle is such a howling hit is that it resurrects the great unspoken doubt in the minds of all Christians, that has existed ever since the doctrine of the Incarnation.
I was especially interested in your account of the mistakes you made in your first year, when you "soft-pedaled the magazine's politics" and your pages "were filled with pieces about backpacking and cooking." When my wife suggested that we subscribe, I was skeptical, because I hadn't looked at Mother Jones closely since then, and I remember being disgusted, as a West Virginia native, that you were using a great hero's name to sell all that lifestyle piffle. "Aaargh, it's the '70s," I groaned.
Now come on readers who eternally waffles on about piffle, an arch(ie) rival, always 'sensible', accuses others of getting their facts wrong or being on the wrong tack?
and piffle of lips that almost whistle, his arms flapping and flicking,
During a visit to Coventry, the Labour frontbencher said: "Boris Johnson, the most senior elected Conservative in the country, described that as piffle.