noun
- a person who talks or acts in a trivial, ineffectual, or evasive manner
Usage: informal
verb
- to engage in petty talk or trivial activity; to waste time with unimportant matters
Usage: informal
Examples
- He's just a piffler who never follows through on his promises.
- Stop piffling around and get to work.
- The committee spent the meeting piffling over minor details instead of addressing the main issue.
- Don't listen to that piffler; he's all talk and no action.
- She piffled away the afternoon gossiping instead of finishing her project.
- The politician's speech was full of piffling excuses.
- He tends to piffler when he's nervous, rambling about nothing in particular.