ProphetesAI is thinking...
piffle
Answers
MindMap
Loading...
Sources
piffle
piffle, v. dial. and slang. (ˈpɪf(ə)l) Also 9 dial. pifle, pyfle. [? Onomatopœic, with dim. ending: cf. also Sc. pifer, pyfer, in cognate sense.] intr. To talk or act in a feeble, trifling, or ineffective way.1847–78 Halliwell, Pifle, to be squeamish or delicate. 1896 Kipling Seven Seas, Mary Gloste...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Balderdash and Piffle
The first, titled Balderdash and Piffle was published by BBC Books in 2006. Oxford English Dictionary's Balderdash and Piffle site
Article in OED Newsletter on Balderdash and Piffle from the Chief Editor
Takeaway Media, the producers
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
piffle
piffle/ˈpɪfl; `pɪfl/ n[U](infml derog 口, 贬) meaningless or worthless talk; nonsense 废话; 无聊的话 You're talking piffle! 你胡说八道!
牛津英汉双解词典
prophetes.ai
The Clown (1916 film)
Plot summary
Cast
Victor Moore as Piffle
Thomas Meighan as Dick Ordway
Ernest Joy as Judge Jonathan Le Roy
Florence Dagmar as Millicent, His Daughter
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
Synopsis
Betty's short weakling boyfriend Wiffle Piffle proposes to her. Otherwise, Wiffle Piffle appeared only in the Screen Songs series.
References
External links
Whoops!
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
pifflicated
pifflicated, ppl. a. U.S. slang. (ˈpɪflɪkeɪtɪd) [A fanciful formation of piffle v., infl. by spiflicate v.] Drunk, intoxicated.1905 Taylor & Gibson Log of Water Wagon 50 (caption) Professor Bunn's patent plugs for pifflicated people. 1934 S. Robertson Devel. Mod. Eng. (1936) xi. 465 English (chiefly...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Gus Bluett
His successes include:
Hullo Everybody in 1918, his first appearance for JCW
Adrian van Piffle in The Cousin from Nowhere
Timothy Gibbs in Our Miss Gibbs
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Balderdash (disambiguation)
of Adam Balding, an English rugby union footballer
See also
Ganser syndrome, also called balderdash syndrome, a rare mental disorder
Balderdash and Piffle
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
footler
footler (ˈfuːtlə(r)) [f. footle v. + -er1.] One who footles.1904 Chesterton Nap. Notting Hill iv. iii. 242 Drop your public-house flag, you footler! 1923 Daily Mail 22 June 7 Urbane persiflage directed against ‘footlers’, bores, and busybodies. 1923 U. L. Silberrad Lett. J. Armiter ix. 191 The rest ...
Oxford English Dictionary
prophetes.ai
Wordhunt
The appeal is a companion to the BBC2 television series Balderdash and Piffle. Oxford English Dictionary and the BBC and resulted in the OED updating the entries of 34 words and phrases, featured in the first series of Balderdash and Piffle
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Jack Callahan (cartoonist)
This quickly became Callahan's most successful work: By 1923–24, the strip merged with The Piffle Family and gained a Sunday page, being also featured After a stint as an editorial cartoonist, Callahan revived the Piffle family format with Home, Sweet Home, which ran between 1935 and 1940.
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Jegsy Dodd
, Loquacious, Loquacious (2008), Piffle
Compilations
The Probe Plus Stuff (2010), Probe Plus
EPs
The Jewel in the Flat Cap (1988), Probe Plus
Singles "Only Football Can Truly Break Your Heart" (2007), Piffle
Books
Here We Go Gathering Cups In May: Liverpool In Europe, The Fans' Story (2008), Canongate
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
The Hot Air Salesman
Otherwise, Wiffle Piffle appeared only in the Screen Songs series.
Wiffle Piffle is a well-dressed but odd-looking character. Wiffle Piffle later appears as a background character in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Gladys Yelvington
She is best known for "Piffle Rag", her only published composition.
wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org