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Trifle   /trˈaɪfəl/   Listen
noun
Trifle  n.  
1.
A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. "With such poor trifles playing." "Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ." "Small sands the mountain, moments make year, And frifles life."
2.
A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.


verb
Trifle  v. t.  
1.
To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle. (Obs.)
2.
To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. "We trifle time."


Trifle  v. i.  (past & past part. trifled; pres. part. trifling)  To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements. "They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us."
To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.





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"Trifle" Quotes from Famous Books



... no Soap!" She may appear a trifle cracky, but no one can say that this picture represents her as having gone "clean mad." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892 • Various
... remaining Suliotes, and after being violently heated, and then drenched in a heavy shower, persisted in returning home in a boat, remarking with a laugh, in answer to a remonstrance, "I should make a pretty soldier if I were to care for such a trifle." It soon became apparent that he had caught his death. Almost immediately on his return, he was seized with shiverings and violent pain. The next day he rose as usual, and had his last ride in the olive woods. On the 11th a rheumatic fever set in. On the 14th, Bruno's skill being exhausted, it ...
— Byron • John Nichol
... again say) he knew enough of the world to know that he himself has precisely the same critical inclination as the Englishman and that it is a trait inherited from common ancestors. The Anglo-Saxon race acquired early in its life the conviction that it was a trifle better than any other section of the human kind. And it is justified. We—Americans and Englishmen alike—hold that we are better than any other people. That the root-trait has developed somewhat differently in the two portions of the family ...
— The Twentieth Century American - Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great - Anglo-Saxon Nations • H. Perry Robinson
... each of us the religion that lies coiled in our most secret nerves; with such we cannot trifle, we do not even try! But how shall a man grudge any one sensations he has so keenly felt? Let such as have never known those curious delights, uphold the hand of horror—for me there can be no such luxury. If I could, I would still perhaps be knowing them; but when once the joy of life ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... it was not long, seemed inordinately so as it emerged from it, like the necks of those plaster cats which wag their heads, and are carried about upon the heads of scores of image sellers. And something was always sticking to his uniform, either a bit of hay or some trifle. Moreover, he had a peculiar knack, as he walked along the street, of arriving beneath a window just as all sorts of rubbish were being flung out of it: hence he always bore about on his hat scraps of melon ...
— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


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