trifle
IPA: trˈaɪfʌɫ
noun
- (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- (figurative) A very small amount (of something).
- A particular kind of pewter.
- (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
verb
- (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
- (transitive) To squander or waste.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make a trifle of, to make trivial.
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Examples of "trifle" in Sentences
- It is the method about how to eat trifle.
- In a trifle bowl, mix all the ingredients.
- It takes a real bias to stickle with such a trifle.
- Some of the paragraphs and sections are a trifle short.
- It is a trifling matter, but it is a trifle I would like to clarify.