trifle
/ˈtɹaɪfəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It is interesting to watch the surface joviality on screen while racism is layered between courses like soggy trifles."
- "Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ."
- "Olde Chaucer doth of Topas tell, / Mad Rablais of Pantagruell, / A latter third of Dowsabell, / With such poore trifles playing:"
- "[W]hen they had the Character and Honour of a VVoman at their Mercy, often times made it their Jest, and at least look’d upon it as a Trifle, and counted the Ruin of thoſe, they had had their VVill of, as a thing of no value."
- "‘And all about a rattle!’ said Alice, still hoping to make them a little ashamed of fighting for such a trifle."
- "A trifle, some eight-penny matter."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *tewh₂-, trifle