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Trifle

//ˈtɹaɪfəl//

Definitions

1
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles.
2
Anything that is of little importance or worth.
Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.
3
A very small amount (of something).
This Line leaves out […] Poplar and Black-vvall, vvhich are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous.
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1
To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
You must not trifle with her affections.
2
To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.

Word Origin

From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.

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Trifle

//ˈtɹaɪfəl//

Definitions

nountrifles

1
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles.
2
Anything that is of little importance or worth.
Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.
3
A very small amount (of something).
This Line leaves out […] Poplar and Black-vvall, vvhich are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous.
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verbtrifles · trifling · trifled

1
To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
You must not trifle with her affections.
2
To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.

Word Origin

From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.

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[…] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind […]

3

To inconsequentially toy with something.

Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling […]

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