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noun. Something of little importance or value.

noun. A small amount; a jot.

noun. A dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry, rum, or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard, and whipped cream.

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noun. A moderately hard variety of pewter.

noun. Utensils made from this variety of pewter.

intransitive verb. To treat flippantly or without seriousness; play or toy: synonym: flirt.

intransitive verb. To act or speak with little seriousness or purpose; jest.

intransitive verb. To waste (time or money, for example).

idiom. (a trifle) A little; somewhat.

noun. A jest; a joke; a pleasantry.

noun. A trick; a fraud; a lie.

noun. An idle speech or tale; vain or foolish talk; twaddle; nonsense; absurdity.

noun. Anything of slight value or moment; a paltry matter; an insignificant fact, circumstance, object, amount, etc.: often used in the adverbial phrase a trifle: as, to feel a trifle annoyed.

noun. A dish or confection consisting mainly of whipped cream or some light substitute, as the beaten whites of eggs, and usually containing fruit or almonds, and cake or pastry soaked in wine or brandy.

noun. Common pewter, such as is used for ordinary utensils, composed of eighty parts of tin and twenty of lead.

To jest; make sport; hence, to use mockery; treat something with derision, flippancy, or a lack of proper respect; often followed by with.

To use trickery or deception; cheat; lie.

To talk or act idly; busy one's self with trivial or useless things; act frivolously; waste one's time; dally; idle.

To play, as by lightly handling or touching something; toy.

To turn into jest or sport; hence, to treat lightly or flippantly; play with.

To spend on trifles; pass idly or foolishly; waste; fritter: often followed by away.

To utter or perform lightly or carelessly.

To reduce to a trifle; make trivial or of no importance.

transitive verb. To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle.

transitive verb. To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste.

noun. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.

noun. A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

intransitive verb. To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.

intransitive verb. to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.

noun. An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

noun. An insignificant amount.

noun. Anything that is of little importance or worth.

noun. A particular kind of pewter.

noun. utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.

verb. To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.

verb. To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.

verb. To inconsequentially toy with something.

verb. To squander or waste.

verb. consider not very seriously

noun. a detail that is considered insignificant

verb. act frivolously

verb. waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

noun. a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate

noun. something of small importance

""I would have given my life willingly for what you call a trifle, sir," said the marquis, with a bow to Osra."

particle  play  trace  

a trifle  trifled  trifling  

act  behave  consider  deal  detail  

Eiffel  rifle  stifle  

frivolous  obvious  petty  ridiculous  serious  

Charlotte  Danish pastry  French pastry  a continental  a curse  

trifled  trifles  trifling