trifle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.

   “It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles.”

2. isim Anything that is of little importance or worth.

   “Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.”

3. isim An insignificant amount of money.

   “A trifle, some eight-penny matter.”

4. isim A very small amount (of something).

   “This Line leaves out […] Poplar and Black-vvall, vvhich are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous.”

5. isim A particular kind of pewter.
6. isim Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
7. fiil To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.

   “You must not trifle with her affections.”

8. fiil To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.

   “[…] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind […]”

9. fiil To inconsequentially toy with something.

   “Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling […]”

10. fiil To squander or waste.

    “We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.”

11. fiil To make a trifle of, to make trivial.

    “[…] but this sore night / Hath trifled former knowings.”