Words that rhyme with piffle

• civil 0
  adj 1: applying to ordinary citizens as contrasted with the military; "civil authorities" 2: not rude; marked by satisfactory (or especially minimal) adherence to social usages and sufficient but not noteworthy consideration for others; "even if he didn't like them he should have been civil"- W.S. Maugham [syn: civil, polite] [ant: rude, uncivil] 3: of or occurring within the state or between or among citizens of the state; "civil affairs"; "civil strife"; "civil disobedience"; "civil branches of government" 4: of or relating to or befitting citizens as individuals; "civil rights"; "civil liberty"; "civic duties"; "civic pride" [syn: civil, civic] 5: (of divisions of time) legally recognized in ordinary affairs of life; "the civil calendar"; "a civil day begins at mean midnight" [ant: sidereal] 6: of or in a condition of social order; "civil peoples"
• pitiful 0
  adj 1: inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" [syn: pathetic, pitiable, pitiful] 2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry] 3: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]
• riffle 0
  n 1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet] 2: shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners v 1: twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked" [syn: flick, ruffle, riffle] 2: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn: flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff] 3: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 4: shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
• skiffle 0
  n 1: a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments
• sniffle 0
  n 1: the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) [syn: snuffle, sniffle, snivel] v 1: cry or whine with snuffling; "Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!" [syn: snivel, sniffle, blubber, blub, snuffle] 2: inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row" [syn: sniff, sniffle]
• whiffle 0
• biffle 0

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