1. (

• chatter ,
• piffle ,
• palaver ,
• prate ,
• tittle-tattle ,
• twaddle ,
• clack ,
• maunder ,
• prattle ,
• blab ,
• gibber ,
• tattle ,
• blabber ,
• gabble

) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly ;

2. (

• piffle

) act in a trivial or ineffective way ;

1. (

• fiddling ,
• footling ,
• lilliputian ,
• little ,
• niggling ,
• piddling ,
• piffling ,
• petty ,
• picayune ,
• trivial

) (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" ;