Definition of piffling Piffling

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What does piffling mean?

WordNet

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Adjective

piffling - (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"
  fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, petty, picayune, trivial
  unimportant not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
  colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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  • piffling (Verb)
    Present participle of piffle.
  • piffling (Adjective)
    unimportant.

Part of speech

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  • piffling, verb, gerund of piffle (infinitive).

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