trifle
A raspberry trifle (1)
Meanings
Noun
- 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.
- A very small amount (of something).
- A particular kind of pewter.
- Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
Verb
- To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- 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.
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Origin
- From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle, a byform of trufe, truffe, of uncertain origin.
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