pifflen.

Brit.

/ˈpɪfl/, U.S.

/ˈpɪf(ə)l/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: piffle v.

Etymology: < piffle v.

colloquial.

Foolish or empty talk; nonsense, drivel. Also used as an exclamation or retort to express disbelief or disagreement.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > types of

venialc1380

nutshalea1393

nutshella1400

flea-biting1553

flea-bite1577

nothing1577

epitomea1593

quilicoma1644

ephemera1751

pinprick1853

bibelot1873

piffle1884

peanut1910

popcorn1964

trivia1968

factoid1982

1884 ‘J. G. Taylire’ Ye Lateste D'Evil 280 The Printer's Devil is of opinion that the whole book is piffle and is very glad that he never went to Oxford.

1890 Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 152/2 If there is..a certain amount of the ‘piffle’ (to use a University phrase) thought to be incumbent on earnest young princes in our century, there is a complete absence of insincerity.

1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 16 Oh piffle, an exclamation denoting inconsequence of the subject in question.

1920 ‘B. L. Standish’ Man on First xviii. 127 ‘The Hawks have the lead on us, still.’ ‘Piffle!’ said Cady. ‘We'll even things up to-morrow.’

1959 Elizabethan Apr. 10/1 I gave you a bar of chocolate on the train from London. So piffle!

2000 Washington Post 28 Jan. c8/1 Behavioral experts..have been probed for reaction, calling the theory everything from irrelevant piffle to groundbreaking.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pifflev.

Brit.

/ˈpɪfl/, U.S.

/ˈpɪf(ə)l/

Forms: 1800s pifle (English regional), 1800s pyfle (English regional), 1800s– piffle.

Origin: Probably an imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Probably imitative; compare -le suffix.

colloquial.

intransitive. To talk or behave in an ineffectual way; to talk nonsense, to witter; to dither or fiddle. Also: to waste, to fritter away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity

trifle?a1400

loiterc1400

tiffc1440

tifflec1440

to pick a salad1520

to play the wanton1529

fiddle1530

dauntc1540

piddle1545

dally?1548

pittlea1568

pingle1574

puddle1591

to thrum caps1594

maginate1623

meecha1625

pudder1624

dabble1631

fanfreluche1653

dawdlea1656

taigle17..

niff-naff1728

tiddle1747

peddle1755

gammer1788

quiddle1789

muddle1791

browse1803

niddle1808

poke1811

fal-lal1818

potter1824

footer1825

putter1827

shaffle1828

to fool about1838

mike1838

piffle1847

mess1853

to muck about1856

tinker1856

bohemianize1857

to fool around1860

frivol1866

june1869

muss1876

to muddle about (also around)1877

slummock1877

dicker1888

moodle1893

to fart about1899

to fart about (or around)1899

plouter1899

futz1907

monkey1916

to arse around1919

to play around1929

to fuck around1931

tool1932

frig1933

boondoggle1935

to muck around1935

to screw around1935

to bugger about1937

to bugger around1939

to piss about1943

to dick around1948

to jerk around1953

fart-arse1954

to fanny around1969

slop1973

dork1982

to twat around (or about)1992

to dick about1996

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pifle, to be squeamish or delicate.

1897 Sunday Times 2 Jan. 6/7 Their defence is sound, and their attack altogether good, save a tendency to ‘piffle’ in front of goal at times.

1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter ix. 191 The rest are just footlers who'd piffle and gas.

2000 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Arts & Entertainment section) 22 Friedkin..piffled away one of the 1970s' biggest careers with the likes of ‘Cruising’ and ‘Jade’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	piffle
释义	pifflen. Brit. /ˈpɪfl/, U.S. /ˈpɪf(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: piffle v. Etymology: < piffle v. colloquial. Foolish or empty talk; nonsense, drivel. Also used as an exclamation or retort to express disbelief or disagreement. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > types of venialc1380 nutshalea1393 nutshella1400 flea-biting1553 flea-bite1577 nothing1577 epitomea1593 quilicoma1644 ephemera1751 pinprick1853 bibelot1873 piffle1884 peanut1910 popcorn1964 trivia1968 factoid1982 1884 ‘J. G. Taylire’ Ye Lateste D'Evil 280 The Printer's Devil is of opinion that the whole book is piffle and is very glad that he never went to Oxford. 1890 Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 152/2 If there is..a certain amount of the ‘piffle’ (to use a University phrase) thought to be incumbent on earnest young princes in our century, there is a complete absence of insincerity. 1914 ‘High Jinks, Jr.’ Choice Slang 16 Oh piffle, an exclamation denoting inconsequence of the subject in question. 1920 ‘B. L. Standish’ Man on First xviii. 127 ‘The Hawks have the lead on us, still.’ ‘Piffle!’ said Cady. ‘We'll even things up to-morrow.’ 1959 Elizabethan Apr. 10/1 I gave you a bar of chocolate on the train from London. So piffle! 2000 Washington Post 28 Jan. c8/1 Behavioral experts..have been probed for reaction, calling the theory everything from irrelevant piffle to groundbreaking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pifflev. Brit. /ˈpɪfl/, U.S. /ˈpɪf(ə)l/ Forms: 1800s pifle (English regional), 1800s pyfle (English regional), 1800s– piffle. Origin: Probably an imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Probably imitative; compare -le suffix. colloquial. intransitive. To talk or behave in an ineffectual way; to talk nonsense, to witter; to dither or fiddle. Also: to waste, to fritter away. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Pifle, to be squeamish or delicate. 1897 Sunday Times 2 Jan. 6/7 Their defence is sound, and their attack altogether good, save a tendency to ‘piffle’ in front of goal at times. 1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. Jean Armiter ix. 191 The rest are just footlers who'd piffle and gas. 2000 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Arts & Entertainment section) 22 Friedkin..piffled away one of the 1970s' biggest careers with the likes of ‘Cruising’ and ‘Jade’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1884v.1847
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