Words that rhyme with riffel

n 1: trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble] 2: act in a trivial or ineffective way

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]

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

n 1: a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments

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]