Example Sentences
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They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel.
From The Seven Seas by Kipling, Rudyard
Misther Madden says 'Piffle,' but Oi say where are they piffled to?
From The Cruise of the Dry Dock by Stribling, T. S.
I knew — I knew what was coming, when we bid on the Byfleet's keel — They piddled and piffled with iron: I'd given my orders for steel!
From Verses 1889-1896 by Kipling, Rudyard
