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piffler

piffler noun: a blathering fool.

Noun

piffler (plural pifflers)

  1. A blathering fool.
    • Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN

Forms of piffler

pluralpifflers

Origin of piffler

From piffle + -er.

Questions about piffler

What does piffler mean?
Piffler means a blathering fool.
What part of speech is piffler?
Piffler is a noun.
What is the plural of piffler?
The plural of piffler is pifflers.

Words near piffler in the dictionary

  1. piffero
  2. Piffers
  3. piffing
  4. piffle
  5. piffled
  6. piffler
  7. pifflers
  8. piffles
  9. piffling
  10. pifflingly
  11. piffly

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