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English Dictionary: piffling by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
piffling
adj
  1. (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"
    Synonym(s): fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Piffle \Pif"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Piffled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Piffling}.]
      To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk
      triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or
      Slang]
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