trifle.
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
Meaning & usage
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
Anything that is of little importance or worth.
Anything that is of little importance or worth. An insignificant amount of money.
A very small amount (of something).
A particular kind of pewter.
Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.
To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
You must not trifle with her affections.
To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
To inconsequentially toy with something.
To squander or waste.
To make a trifle of, to make trivial.
Where this word comes from
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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