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Trifle   /trˈaɪfəl/   Listen
Trifle

noun
1.
A cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate.
2.
A detail that is considered insignificant.  Synonyms: technicality, triviality.
3.
Something of small importance.  Synonyms: small beer, trivia, triviality.
verb
(past & past part. trifled; pres. part. trifling)
1.
Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently.  Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, wanton, wanton away.
2.
Act frivolously.  Synonym: frivol.
3.
Consider not very seriously.  Synonyms: dally, play.  "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"



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"Trifle" Quotes from Famous Books



... be made to enable the Secretary of War to keep cavalry and artillery horses, worn-out in long performance of duty. Such horses fetch but a trifle when sold; and rather than turn them out to the misery awaiting them when thus disposed of, it would be better to employ them at light work around the posts, and when necessary to put ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... here, at one time, to an alarming extent, and even fifty years ago, though he was too slippery a fish for the authorities to lay hold of, it was well-known there was a clever engraver in the Inkleys who would copy anything put before him for the merest trifle, even though the punishment was most severe. Under "Notable Offences" will be found several cases of interest in this peculiar line ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
... from the water only a few yards in front of the canoe. The man who was behind me fired with his carbine close to my head. The bullet grazed my right ear. It was a trifle trying to be travelling with such careless sportsmen, but the best thing was to say ...
— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... supermannism, he retained some traces of personality. He was bald, and sensitive about it; he always had been a trifle foppish. So when they gave him a nice laurel wreath for his triumph over Pompey, he continued, against all precedent, to wear it indefinitely,—as hiding certain shining surfaces from the vulgar gaze.... "H'm," said Rome, "he goes about the ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... the castle ghost—this old rummy who can't sleep in his grave of nights? Ha, ha! I'm not afraid of a little trifle ...
— The Ghost Breaker - A Novel Based Upon the Play • Charles Goddard


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