trifle.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a thing of slight value or importance.
2 a a small amount esp. of money (was sold for a trifle). b (prec. by a) somewhat (seems a trifle annoyed).
3 Brit. a confection of sponge cake with custard, jelly, fruit, cream, etc.

--v.

1 intr. talk or act frivolously.
2 intr. (foll. by with) a treat or deal with frivolously or derisively; flirt heartlessly with. b refuse to take seriously.
3 tr. (foll. by away) waste (time, energies, money, etc.) frivolously.

trifler n. [ME f. OF truf(f)le by-form of trufe deceit, of unkn. orig.]

trifle.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a thing of slight value or importance.
2 a a small amount esp. of money (was sold for a trifle). b (prec. by a) somewhat (seems a trifle annoyed).
3 Brit. a confection of sponge cake with custard, jelly, fruit, cream, etc.

--v.

1 intr. talk or act frivolously.
2 intr. (foll. by with) a treat or deal with frivolously or derisively; flirt heartlessly with. b refuse to take seriously.
3 tr. (foll. by away) waste (time, energies, money, etc.) frivolously.

trifler n. [ME f. OF truf(f)le by-form of trufe deceit, of unkn. orig.]

trifle.html - adj.
1 unimportant, petty.
2 frivolous.

triflingly adv.

trifle.html - n.
= TRIGEMINAL NERVE.

trifle.html - n.
US, Austral., & NZ a form of betting in which the first three places in a race must be predicted in the correct order. [TRI- + PERFECTA]

trifle.html - adj.
esp. Biol. partly or wholly split into three divisions or lobes. [L trifidus (as TRI-, findere fid- split)]