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• n  a cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate
• n  a detail that is considered insignificant
• n  something of small importance
• v  waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
• v  act frivolously
• v  consider not very seriously

• Shelly gave birth to a healthy daughter weighing a trifle over six pounds.
• After victory, the political party organized huge celebration and the fanfare was a trifle excessive.
• Their attitude toward modern life is much the same both are tolerant, interested, but a trifle surprised at some of its phases, perhaps a trifle withdrawn from it.

• technicality
• triviality
• trivia
• small beer
• piddle
• wanton
• wanton away
• piddle away
• frivol
• dally
• play

News & Articles

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• E. Oregon fire fears not eased by May rain
  BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — A soggy end to May made Eastern Oregon's drought look a trifle less dire on paper, but Jason Simmons isn't worried about paper. He's worried about cheatgrass, and sagebrush, and junipers, and pines and firs -- all primed to burn due to this year's unusually dry start.
  June 7, 2013 - KTVZ Bend
• Fire managers worry about fire season
  By Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) â A soggy end to May made Eastern Oregon's drought look a trifle less dire on paper, but Jason Simmons isn't worried about paper. He's worried about cheatgrass. And sagebrush and junipers and pines and firs. ...
  June 7, 2013 - KTVL Medford

Quotes

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• Mike Wallace in CNNMoney.com
  I've often replied, when asked, 'I'll retire when my toes turn up',Wallace said in a statement. "Well, they're just beginning to curl a trifle, which means that, as I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and...
• Terry Pratchett in Channel 4 News
  Pratchett said: "It's a strange life when you 'come out' - people get embarrassed, lower their voices and get lost for words. When Milton's Satan stood in the pit of hell and raged at heaven, he was merely a trifle miffed compared to how I felt on...
• Jon Stewart in AlterNet
  It's a trifle, it's nothing,Stewart said. "There's so many other things to talk about: Iraq, the collapse of some of our most prestigious financial institutions......right?"