piffling

英 [ˈpɪflɪŋ]

美 [ˈpɪflɪŋ]

adj.  渺小的; 微不足道的

现在分词：piffling　

牛津词典

adj.

• 渺小的；微不足道的
  small and unimportant
  1. piffling amounts
     微不足道的数量

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 琐碎的；微不足道的
  If you describe something aspiffling, you are critical of it because it is very small or unimportant.
  1. ...some piffling dispute regarding visiting rights.
     有关探视权的一些无关紧要的争论

英英释义

adj

• (informal) small and of little importance
  1. a fiddling sum of money
  2. a footling gesture
  3. our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war
  4. a little (or small) matter
  5. a dispute over niggling details
  6. limited to petty enterprises
  7. piffling efforts
  8. giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction
  Synonym:fiddlingfootlinglilliputianlittlenigglingpiddlingpettypicayunetrivial

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