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PIFFLING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does piffling mean?
• PIFFLING (adjective)
The adjective PIFFLING has 1 sense:
1. (informal) small and of little importance
Familiarity information: PIFFLING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(informal) small and of little importance
Synonyms:
fiddling; footling; lilliputian; little; niggling; petty; picayune; piddling; piffling; trivial
Context example:
giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
Similar:
unimportant (not important)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
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