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1. A cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
    
2. A detail that is considered insignificant
   - technicality, triviality
    
3. Something of small importance
   - triviality, trivia, small beer, small fry, piddler, picayune [N. Amer]

1. Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
   - piddle, wanton [archaic], wanton away, piddle away
    
2. Act frivolously
   "She was advised not to trifle with the young heir";
   - frivol
    
3. Consider not very seriously
   "He is trifling with her";
   - dally, play

Derived forms: trifles, trifling, trifled

Type of: act, article, behave, consider, detail, do, drop, expend, item, look at, object, physical object, point, pud [Brit], pudding [Brit], spend, take

Encyclopedia: Trifle