1a thing of little value or importance:we needn’t trouble the headmaster over such trifles
[in singular] a small amount of something:the thousand yen he’d paid seemed the merest trifle
2British a cold dessert of sponge cake and fruit covered with layers of custard, jelly, and cream:syllabubs, trifles, and other dishes [mass noun]:bowls of trifle followed
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Universal
1 (trifle with) treat without seriousness or respect:he is not a man to be trifled withmen who trifle with women’s affections
2 archaic talk or act frivolously:we will not trifle—life is too short
[with object] (trifle something away) waste something, especially time, frivolously:he had trifled away two months at a task which should have taken a week
a trifle
a little; somewhat:his methods are a trifle eccentric
