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PRONUNCIATION OF PIFFLING

piffling  [ˈpɪflɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIFFLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Piffling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PIFFLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of piffling in the English dictionary

The definition of piffling in the dictionary is worthless, trivial.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PIFFLING


baffling
ˈbæflɪŋ
chiefling
ˈtʃiːflɪŋ
fling
flɪŋ
halfling
ˈhɑːflɪŋ
outfling
ˈaʊtˌflɪŋ
rifling
ˈraɪflɪŋ
scuffling
ˈskʌflɪŋ
stifling
ˈstaɪflɪŋ
trifling
ˈtraɪflɪŋ
upfling
ʌpˈflɪŋ
wolfling
ˈwʊlflɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIFFLING

piezomagnetic effect
piezomagnetism
piezometer
piezometric
piezometrically
piezometry
pifferaro
piffero
piffle
piffler
pig
pig bed
pig breeding
pig dog
pig farm
pig farmer
pig fern
pig in the middle
pig industry
pig iron

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIFFLING

bowling
ceiling
cooling
cycling
dealing
falling
feeling
filing
filling
handling
Highland fling
mailing
purfling
rolling
ruffling
selling
sterling
telling
waffling
willing

Synonyms and antonyms of piffling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PIFFLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «piffling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of piffling

Translation of «piffling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PIFFLING

Find out the translation of piffling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of piffling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «piffling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

piffling
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

piffling
570 millions of speakers

English

piffling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

piffling
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

piffling
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

piffling
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

piffling
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

piffling
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

frivole
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Piffling
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

piffling
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

piffling
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

piffling
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Piffling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự nói bậy bạ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

piffling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खडखडाट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

piffling
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

piffling
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

piffling
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

piffling
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nesemnificativă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

piffling
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nutteloos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

piffling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

piffling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of piffling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PIFFLING»

The term «piffling» is normally little used and occupies the 136.655 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of piffling
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PIFFLING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «piffling» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «piffling» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about piffling

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIFFLING»

Discover the use of piffling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to piffling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The International Handbook on Innovation
... whose research made possible medical transplant technologies, has written that scientists interested in important discoveries require important problems. “ Dull or piffling problems”, he says, “yield dull or piffling answers” (Medawar, 1979 , p.
Larisa V. Shavinina, 2003
2
Creatch Battler
And at the end of the day, Billy just might get to save the world—or go down trying. From the Hardcover edition.
Mark Crilley, 2009
3
Harrap's essential English Dictionary
piffle 716 pillar box piffle /'pifal/ noun (uncount; informal, derogatory) You can call something that someone has said or written piffle if you think it is nonsense or rubbish: He talks a lot of piffle, [same as rot] piffling /'piflin/ adjective (informal, ...
‎1996
4
Law and Disorder: Confessions of a Pupil Barrister
'It must be a great comedown, OldSmoothie, to have had to come to Willesden and fight with the baby Bar on such a piffling case as this one.' I don't know whether OldSmoothie had deliberately provoked such a remark but I wouldn't put it past ...
Tim Kevan, 2010
5
Macromedia Studio MX 2004: Training from the Source
Piffling. 5) To see the other two screens, click the keyframe in Frame 2 in the timeline, and then click the keyframe in Frame 3. Fach time you click a different keyframe, you see a different screen. 240 Recognizing the dangers traditional farming ...
Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, 2004
6
The Audience in Everyday Life: Living in a Media World
They are an activity that was made possible only by Internet communication, and by the particularly collaborative, female style of groups like DQMW-L. A Sacred Place In reflecting on their community, DQMW listers. Piffling. a. Gytor-Quilt*. /I.
S. Elizabeth Bird, 2003
7
Medieval Texts & Contemporary Readers
piffling. shift. wmss. in. ths. Iropt. and. mast. overtly. rarrcfitive. of. these. rereadings. In what seems a literary retraction, Virgil tells the story of Manto and the founding of Mantua, his own birthplace, in terms that expressly deny the version of the ...
Laurie Finke, Martin B. Shichtman, 1987
8
The Logical Trader: Applying a Method to the Madness
The daily pivot range must engulf the high or the low made in the first hour. • At the end of the first hour, the market must have made an A up or an A down. • Further, at the end of the first hour, the. Piffling. II. Together;. ACD. ana. Pivot. Ranges. "i.
Mark Fisher, 2002
9
Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection ...
Dull or piffling problems yield dull of piffling answers. It is not enough that a problem should be “interesting” – almost any problem is interesting if it is studied in sufficient depth.... No, the problem must be such that it matters what the answer is ...
Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, 2012
10
The Image of Aristocracy: In Britain, 1000-1300
A king of Glamorgan or Gwynedd would seem piffling by comparison. The English and Normans undoubtedly considered the Welsh claims to kingship piffling. Geoffrey Gaimar, who composed his French Estoire des Engles (History of the ...
David Crouch, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIFFLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term piffling is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Show us the TPP
Or the upcoming Shenhua coal mine should they be in the slightest discomfitted by silly little things like citizens objecting or piffling sovereignty. «Crikey, Jul 15»
2
Apprenticeship could be real key to Skill India's success
In India, the number is a piffling 280,000. This can change. Last year, lawmakers passed the Apprenticeship (Amendment) Bill, 2014, which ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
3
Here's Everything You Need To Know About Sandra Bland
Yes, it is, and especially when you look at the many high profile cases of black men in particular being killed by police for a relatively piffling ... «The Debrief, Jul 15»
4
Should power and water increase next?
First, cheap power and water, in tandem with piffling prices for petrol and diesel, mean we use up more oil than necessary. This is a resource ... «The National, Jul 15»
5
2015 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 Convertible
The ventilated leather seats are not only comfy, but their cooling effect can actually be felt- not like the piffling stream of air you feel on seats in ... «Carpages.ca, Jul 15»
6
Cut-throat cloud pricing not as cut-throat as you'd think
But 451 Research's Cloud Price Index shows that in reality the cost of running a typical webserver has dropped a piffling 2.25 per cent since ... «The Register, Jul 15»
7
Behold the rise of the joke candidate, from Andy Burnham to Donald …
... he had been joking. There are piffling little political gags like Burnham, of course, and then there are side-splittingly, ribcage-shattereringly, ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
8
Volkswagen Passat: car review
... be a plug-in petrol-electric hybrid and a super-efficient Bluemotion version which will do 78mpg and emit a piffling 95g/km of CO² emissions. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
The Pedant: Any grammar quiz will be a hoary collection of peeves
Scoring 28 out of 28 in a piffling test of someone else's linguistic superstitions is as nothing to me. Whenever I see a grammar quiz online I have ... «The Times, Jul 15»
10
Gramofon review: The Spotify streamer to own
For this piffling amount of money you're getting a Wi-Fi music streamer that's primarily designed to stream Spotify tracks over a Wi-Fi connection ... «Alphr, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
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