piffle

piffle
    n 1: trivial nonsense [syn: {balderdash}, {fiddle-faddle},
         {piffle}]
    v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
         [syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {tittle-
         tattle}, {twaddle}, {clack}, {maunder}, {prattle}, {blab},
         {gibber}, {tattle}, {blabber}, {gabble}]
    2: act in a trivial or ineffective way
    

Piffle \Pif"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Piffled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Piffling}.]
   To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk
   triflingly or ineffectively; to talk nonsense or about
   trivial matters; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]

   Syn: chatter, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack,
        maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5]

   2. To act in a trivial or ineffective way.
      [WordNet 1.5]
    

Piffle \Pif"fle\, n.
   Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle.
   [Dial. or Slang] "Futile piffle." --Kipling.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
    

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "piffle":
      babble, balderdash, baloney, bilge, blabber, blah, blah-blah,
      blather, blatherskite, bop, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum,
      crap, drivel, drool, flapdoodle, gabble, gas, gibber,
      gibble-gabble, guff, gup, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hot air, jabber,
      malarkey, moonshine, poppycock, prate, prattle, rattle, rot, scat,
      shit, talk nonsense, tommyrot, tripe, twaddle, twattle, vapor,
      waffle, wind