n. 1 knick-knack, trinket, bauble, bagatelle, toy, gewgaw, nothing, plaything, bêtise, Colloq doodah Oh, it's nothing, just a trifle I picked up in the Seychelles 2 little, bit, drop, iota, scintilla, suggestion, dash, dab, pinch, whiff, mite, whit, jot, tittle, Colloq smidgen or smidgin, US tad I'd like a trifle more sugar in my coffee, if you don't mind
v. 3 Usually, trifle with. dally (with), flirt (with), wanton (with), mess about (with), toy (with); play (with), fiddle (with), dandle, tinker (with), fidget (with) I hated to see the way he trifled with my sister's affections While trifling with this knob, I was able to get Radio Moscow.