10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIFFLER»
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piffler in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
piffler and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
piffler . An ineffective trifler; a twaddler; 'an earnest futility, i.e. a person with a
moral end in view, and nothing to back it but a habit of talking, or writing
sentimental rubbish', F. & H.: 1892. pig *. A sixpence: c.: from ca 1620; ob.
Fletcher ...
Eric Partridge, Jacqueline Simpson, 1973
2
A hunt cup; or, Loyalty before all, by Wat Bradwood
much time would this piffler, who probably could not distinguish a horse from a
jackass (from his own science of horseflesh), cut to waste out of the precious two
hours? " Shabby-genteel " went round to look on. Piffler was trying a bay horse at
...
Walter Bradford Woodgate, 1873
A Sport Scribe Reports on the Progress of a "Rookie" March 3 — Piffler is a
demon slugger, a graceful fielder and a flash on the basepaths. He is sure to
remain with the club. March 8 — Although Piffler is a sluggard on the bases, he
will ...
A Sport Scribe Reports on the Progress of a "Rookie" March 3 — Piffler is a
demon slugger, a graceful fielder and a flash on the bascpaths. He is sure to
remain with the club. March 8 — Although Piffler is a sluggard on the bases, he
will ...
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The Granta and Its Contributors, 1889-1914
Our sentences, which were not generally considered to err on the side of severity,
were as follows : Caulker and Diggle were each to be publicly rusticated by the
porters of their respective colleges with a red-hot poker; Piffler to stand in the ...
6
A Few Well Chosen Words: More Wit and Wisdom from Public Radio
Seems you've got one of those special models with the computer controlled
electronic womble-piffler. We have to get the spares from China (or South Korea
or Italy or worst of all NewJersey),” and back comes a new estimate for twice the ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
For origin, see the n.—2. See the n., 2. piffler. An ineffective trifler; a twaddler; 'an
earnest futility, i.e. a person with a moral end in view, and nothing to back it but a
habit of talking, or writing sentimental rubbish' (F. 81 H): 1892 (OED): s. >, ca.
8
The Prelude to Adventure
What do they want gettin' a piffler like that kid in the glasses to read his ideas?
Ain't got any - not one - no more 'an I have." They reached the Court - it swam
softly in the moonlight - stars burnt, here and there, in a trembling sky. Lawrence
put ...
Hugh Walpole, 1stworld Library, 2006
9
The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Judging from the notice of Forster's last book, he must be rather a piffler just now.
And I read the Celestial Omnibus again - and found it rather rubbish.1 Those
things don't wear. But if you can get anything out of him, do. The devil will be, to
get ...
D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, Margaret H. Boulton, 2002
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Regenerating the Novel: Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, ...
to reviews of Aspects of the Novel, Lawrence wrote: “Judging from the notice of
Forster's last book, he must be rather a piffler just now. And I read the Celestial
Omnibus again—and found it rather rubbish. Those things don't wear” (Letters 6:
...
