GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Trifle , n. [OE. trifle, trufle, OF. trufle mockery, raillery, trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being applied to any small or worthless object. See Truffle.]
   A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair.
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   With such poor trifles playing.
   Drayton.
   
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   Trifles light as air
   Are to the jealous confirmation strong
   As proofs of holy writ.
   Shak.
   
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   Small sands the mountain, moments make year,
   And frifles life.
   Young.
   
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   A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.
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   Trifle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trifled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trifling .] [OE. trifelen, truflen. See Trifle, n.] To act or talk without seriousness, gravity, weight, or dignity; to act or talk with levity; to indulge in light or trivial amusements.
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   They trifle, and they beat the air about nothing which toucheth us.
   Hooker.
   
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   To trifle with, to play the fool with; to treat without respect or seriousness; to mock; as, to trifle with one's feelings, or with sacred things.
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   Trifle, v. t.
   To make of no importance; to treat as a trifle. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money. “We trifle time.”  
   Shak.
   
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