词汇 | piffle |
词源 | piffle; piffling. Piffle is twaddle, nonsense, idle talk. There have been many suggestions concerning the term’s origins, in- cluding the words puff, pitiful, and a combination of piddle and trifle. The word is first recorded in this sense in 1890. |
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