Word Meanings - TRIFLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong

Additional info about word: TRIFLE

trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak. Small sands the mountain, moments make year, And frifles life. Young. 2. A dish composed of sweetmeats, fruits, cake, wine, etc., with syllabub poured over it.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRIFLE)

• Bauble
• Toy
• trifle
• plaything
• knicknack
• gewgaw
• gimcrack
• kickshaw
• Bubble
• Trifle
• toy
• fancy
• conceit
• vision
• dream
• froth
• trash
• Cipher
• Nonentity
• dot
• nothing
• button
• (fig
• ) straw
• pin
• rush
• molehill
• Cobweb
• cipher
• moonshine
• prejudice
• bugbear
• phantasy
• caprice
• Dally
• play
• wanton
• sport
• fondle
• delay
• procrastinate
• dawdle

Related words: (words related to TRIFLE)

• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• PHANTASY
  See FANCY
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• MOONSHINER
  A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• FROTHILY
  In a frothy manner.
• BUTTONY
  Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.
• FROTHY
  1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy. 2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon. 3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• DALLY
  trifle, talk nonsense, OSw. tule a droll or funny man; or AS. dol 1. To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. We have trifled too long already;
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• GEWGAW
  A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
• TRASHILY
  In a trashy manner.
• FANCYWORK
  Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
• DREAMER
  1. One who dreams. 2. A visionary; one lost in wild imaginations or vain schemes of some anticipated good; as, a political dreamer.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.