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piffle
Overview of noun piffle
The noun piffle has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle -- (trivial nonsense)
Overview of verb piffle
The verb piffle has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble -- (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
2. piffle -- (act in a trivial or ineffective way)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun piffle
1 sense of piffle
Sense 1
balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
=> nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun piffle
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun piffle
1 sense of piffle
Sense 1
balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
=> nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
Antonyms of noun piffle
Member Holonyms of noun piffle
Substance Holonyms of noun piffle
Part Holonyms of noun piffle
Member Meronyms of noun piffle
Substance Meronyms of noun piffle
Part Meronyms of noun piffle
Meronyms of noun piffle
Holonyms of noun piffle
Attributes of noun piffle
Derived Forms of noun piffle
1 sense of piffle
Sense 1
balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
RELATED TO>(verb) piffle#2
=> piffle
RELATED TO>(verb) piffle#1
=> chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
Domain of noun piffle
Domain Terms of noun piffle
Familiarity of noun piffle
piffle used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun piffle
1 sense of piffle
Sense 1
balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
> nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
=> absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness
=> amphigory, nonsense verse
=> balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
=> buzzword, cant
=> cobblers
=> crock
=> fa la, fal la
=> gibberish, gibber
=> incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility
=> jabberwocky
=> mummery, flummery
=> palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric
=> rigmarole, rigamarole
=> shmegegge, schmegegge
=> stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock
=> baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
Meronyms of noun piffle
1 sense of piffle
Holonyms of noun piffle
Grep of noun piffle
piffle
Antonyms of verb piffle
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb piffle
2 senses of piffle
Sense 1
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 2
piffle
=> act, behave, do
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb piffle
1 of 2 senses of piffle
Sense 1
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb piffle
2 senses of piffle
Sense 1
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Sense 2
piffle
=> act, behave, do
'Cause To' of verb piffle
Derived Forms of verb piffle
2 senses of piffle
Sense 1
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
RELATED TO>(noun) piffle#1
=> balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
Sense 2
piffle
RELATED TO>(noun) piffle#1
=> balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle
Domain of verb piffle
Domain Terms of verb piffle
Familiarity of verb piffle
piffle used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb piffle
2 senses of piffle
Sense 1
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
*> Somebody ----s
Sense 2
piffle
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb piffle
2 senses of piffle
Sense 1
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
=> read
=> vocalize, vocalise, phonate
=> troll
=> begin
=> lip off, shoot one's mouth off
=> shout
=> whisper
=> peep
=> speak up
=> snap, snarl
=> enthuse
=> speak in tongues
=> swallow
=> verbalize, verbalise
=> whiff
=> talk of, talk about
=> blubber, blubber out
=> drone, drone on
=> bumble, stutter, stammer, falter
=> rasp
=> blurt out, blurt, blunder out, blunder, ejaculate
=> tone, inflect, modulate
=> deliver, present
=> generalize, generalise
=> chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> chatter
=> yack, jaw, yack away, rattle on, yap away
=> open up
=> snivel, whine
=> murmur
=> mumble, mutter, maunder, mussitate
=> slur
=> bark
=> bay
=> rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave
=> hiss, sizz, siss, sibilate
=> cackle
=> babble
=> tone, chant, intone
=> gulp
=> sing
Sense 2
piffle
> act, behave, do
=> act involuntarily, act reflexively
=> fall over backwards, bend over backwards
=> presume
=> vulgarize, vulgarise
=> optimize, optimise
=> quack
=> menace
=> make
=> swagger, bluster, swash
=> freeze
=> wanton
=> romanticize
=> sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentize, sentimentise
=> bungle
=> play, toy
=> act, play, act as
=> stooge
=> joke, jest
=> piffle
=> make
=> make as if
=> break down, lose it, snap
=> dally, dawdle
=> backslap
=> hugger mugger
=> sauce
=> footle
=> frivol, trifle
=> swell, puff up
=> follow
=> relax, loosen up
=> ramp, rage, storm
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb piffle
Sense 1
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
=> talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
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Sense 2
piffle
=> act, behave, do
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Grep of verb piffle
piffle
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