喜樂美語
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    Piffle is a slightly old-fashioned, slightly British-sounding word for nonsense — talk that is empty, silly, or not worth listening to. “That’s a load of piffle.” You can also piffle as a verb: to talk that kind of fluff. It is not a swear word; it is more like a . People have used it since the mid-1800s. Nobody is quite sure where it came from: it may mix and trifle, or it may be the sound puff (a little puff of air) plus a small-word ending. Either way, the feeling is light, useless talk.

    廢話、胡扯

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成Unknown, from 1847. Perhaps a blend of piddle + trifle, or puff (a little puff of air) + -le (a small-word ending).

同家族的字

  • pifflingthe adjective from piffle: so small it hardly counts

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

pifflenoun/ˈpɪf.əl/

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    Nonsense, foolish talk.

    • The wafflier the piffle, the more sharply Mr Nicholson wields his skewer.
    • The move is obviously pure piffle: a dumbshow designed to placate (or at least entertain) the conservative base while distracting and antagonising rivals.

piffleverb/ˈpɪf.əl/

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    To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.

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    To waste, to fritter away.

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    datedTo be squeamish or delicate.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。