Lexicographical Neighbors of Piffler
Literary usage of Piffler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"Mrs. Crabb, Mrs. James Gann, Mrs. Major Lolly, Mrs. piffler, arid several ladies
present, set up a sob immediately ; and James Gann, a good-humoured, ..."
2. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1900)
"Do I know ? /'// show you." " Can'tI get up ? " moaned Beetle, as Stalky sat on
his shoulder. " Don't jaw, you fat piffler. You're going to fight ..."
3. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"... round the tints outside, feeling for heads with the big ends of their blackthorns,
and all kinds of recreations, and the Sons of Liberty's piffler and ..."
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