trifle

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A very small amount (of something).
5. (countable, uncountable) A particular kind of pewter.
6. (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
2. (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
3. (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
4. (transitive) To squander or waste.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To make a trifle of, to make trivial.

Concepts

bagatelle

babiole

broutille

diplomate

minutie

vétile

baliverne

bricole

culture générale

trés peu

rien

jeu

jouer

monter

anecdote

soupçon

Synonymes

bagatelle

triviality

play

dally

trinket

bauble

toy

knick-knack

trivialities

trivia

bit

piddle

fool

modicum

a little

small beer

frivol

wanton

smallness

wanton away

flirt

😘

chicken-feed

farthing

sport

play with

minor detail

kickshaw

piddle away

waste

jest

thingamajig

toy with

spot

small matter

technicality

pinch

gewgaw

pull someone’s leg

nonsense

littleness

minor

idle talk

nothingness

small

fool around

coot

flimflam

biscuit

feather

🪶

cavil

Traductions

Kleinigkeit

bagatela

Bagatelle

bagatel

inezia

kleinigheid

fotesa

futiliteit

bazzecola

bagatela

bagatella

Lappalie

ninharia

Nichtigkeit

beuzelarij

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈtɹaɪfəl/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: trifle

In summary

From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.