trifle
Plural: trifles
Noun
- a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
- a detail that is considered insignificant
- something of small importance
- An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- A very small amount (of something).
- A particular kind of pewter.
- Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
Verb
Verb Forms: trifled, trifling, trifles
- To treat without seriousness or respect; to waste time.
- waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
- act frivolously
- consider not very seriously
- To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- To inconsequentially toy with something.
- To squander or waste.
- To make a trifle of, to make trivial.
Examples
- Don’t "TRIFLE" with your high-value tiles; use them strategically for maximum points.
- You must not trifle with her affections.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.
Synonyms
dally, frivol, piddle, piddle away, play, small beer, technicality, trivia, triviality, wanton, wanton away, ace, atom, aught, bag of shells, bagatelle, bissel, bit, bric-a-brac, crumb, dab, damn, dash, dicky, dicky-bird, diddly, dot, drop, dusting, fico, fiddle, fig, fleck, flip, flyspeck, fritter, glimpse, glint, grain, halfpennyworth, hint, inch, iota, jot, lick, minuity, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, niff-naff, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, picayune, piece, pinch, scantling, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, scuddick, semblance, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, sop, soupçon, spark, spatter, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tittle, toddick, touch, toy, trace, trick, trifle, tuppence worth, whiff, whiffle, whit, white chip
Scrabble Score: 9
trifle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtrifle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
trifle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary