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Pifling vs Puny - What's the difference?

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Pifling is likely misspelled.


Pifling has no English definition.

As a noun puny is

a new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.

As an adjective puny is

of inferior size, strength or significance.

pifling

Not English

Pifling has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'pifling':

peopling, piffling, pebbling, poppling, popeling, puffling, pabbling

puny

English

Noun

(punies)
  • (obsolete) A new pupil at a school etc.; a junior student.
  • (obsolete) A younger person.
  • *, II.12:
  • a law that the eldest or first borne child shall succeed and inherit all: where nothing at all is reserved for Punies , but obedience.
  • (obsolete) A beginner, a novice.
  • (Fuller)
  • (archaic) An inferior person; a subordinate.
  • Adjective

    (er)
  • Of inferior size, strength or significance.
  • * Shakespeare
  • A puny subject strikes at thy great glory.
  • * Keble
  • Breezes laugh to scorn our puny speed.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * punny – relating to a pun ----