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trifle n 🔊
- (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
- (countable, figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- (countable, figurative) A very small amount (of something).
- A particular kind of pewter.
- (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
trifle v
- (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
- (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
- (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
- (transitive) To squander or waste.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make of little importance or worth, to make trivial.
☞ Today is the eve of Sweetest Day, a holiday celebrated on the third Saturday in October in some parts of the United States for sharing romantic deeds or expressions and acts of charity and kindness.
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A raspberry trifle (sense 1).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/October_16
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