trifle

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Something of very little importance or value.

   Don't waste your energy arguing over such a trifle.

2. 2
   noun

   A small amount of something.

   The journey took a trifle longer than we expected.

3. 3
   verb

   To treat someone or something as unimportant, often carelessly.

   You must not trifle with her feelings.

4. 4
   noun

   An English dessert made of layers of sponge cake, fruit, custard, and whipped cream.

   For dessert she served a trifle topped with fresh strawberries.

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

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