bagatelle
Plural: bagatelles
Noun
- a light piece of music for piano
- something of little value or significance
- a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over
- A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
- A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
- A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
- Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.
Verb
- To meander or move around, in a manner similar to the ball in the game of bagatelle.
- To bagatellize; to regard as a bagatelle.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.
Synonyms
bar billiards, fluff, frippery, frivolity, bag of shells, bagatelle, bric-a-brac, dicky, dicky-bird, fico, fig, flyspeck, hit-a-pin bagatelle, jaw ball, minuity, niff-naff, picayune, pin bagatelle, scuddick, sop, toy, trick, trifle, triviality, whiffle, white chip
Scrabble Score: 12
bagatelle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbagatelle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bagatelle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary