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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
piffle .
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Examples
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Cotton, he had neither worked for the Perry nor yet left it alone, but loafed about with Cotton as usual, and piffled with the work for the
Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson
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Madden says 'Piffle,' but Oi say where are they piffled to?
The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923
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They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel!
Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel.
The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Nitte Santosh Hegde, who has cast the first stone, is not to be sniffed at; his pedigree not to be piffled with.
churumuri 2010
hernesheir commented on the word piffled
"My great-grandad had been a piffled grind.
I 'guaged the Black and Decker, who was plugged
into a mega-treatise on the whine..."
Poem by Ted Yund, M.D., Quoted in Wm. Safire's Language Maven Strikes Again, Chapter "Back to Tool".
January 19, 2010