## Meanings
1. Something of very little importance or value.
2. A small amount of something.
3. To treat someone or something as unimportant, often carelessly.
4. An English dessert made of layers of sponge cake, fruit, custard, and whipped cream.

## Examples
- Don't waste your energy arguing over such a trifle.
- The journey took a trifle longer than we expected.
- You must not trifle with her feelings.
- For dessert she served a trifle topped with fresh strawberries.

## Synonyms
- bagatelle
- bric-a-brac
- dicky
- dicky-bird
- fico
- fig
- flamfew
- flyspeck
- minuity
- niff-naff
- picayune
- scuddick

## Related Forms
- modicum

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *tewh₂-
- Root: trifle

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

## AI Etymology
Trifle is from Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin. Important recorded forms include *tewh₂- (Proto-Indo-European) and trifle (Middle English). Current senses include something of very little importance or value, a small amount of something, and to treat someone or something as unimportant, often carelessly. The wider family includes related words such as modicum.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Food & Drink

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