trifle

trifle englannista suomeksi

1. leikitellä, leikkiä, pilailla

2. kerroskakku

3. pikkuasia, pikkujuttu

4. tuhlata

5. pikkuasiat

0. Substantiivi

1. trifle

2. hitunen, hiukkanen, rahtunen, ripaus, hippunen

3. pikkuasia, pikkujuttu

4. tina, tinaseos

5. tina-astia

5. Verbi

6. väheksyä

7. pilailla, vitsailla

8. leikkiä, leikitellä

trifle englanniksi

1. An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, cake, jelly and cream.

(coordinate terms)

2. (quote-journal)

3. Anything that is of little importance or worth.

(syn)

4. (RQ:Shakespeare Othello)

5. (RQ:Drayton Nimphidia)'' doth of ''Topas'' tell, / Mad ''(w)'' of ''Pantagruell'', / A latter third of ''Dowsabell'', / With such poore trifles playing:

6. (RQ:Defoe Moll Flanders)

7. (RQ:Carroll Looking-Glass)

8. An insignificant amount of money.

9. (RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1)

10. (RQ:Austen Northanger Abbey)

11. (RQ:Conrad Lord Jim)

12. (RQ:Bellow Humboldt's Gift)

13. A very small amount (''of'' something).

14. (RQ:Defoe Great Britain) ''Poplar'' and ''Black-vvall'', vvhich are indeed contiguous, a Trifle of Ground excepted, and very populous.

15. (RQ:Alcott Little Women)

16. (quote-text)”

17. A particular kind of pewter.

18. Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.

19. To deal ''with'' something as if it were of little importance or worth.

(ux)

20. (RQ:Shakespeare Othello) Do not believe / That, from the sense of all civility, / I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:

21. (RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)”

22. {{quote-text|en|year=1948|author=Alan Paton|title=Cry, the Beloved Country|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1958|section=Book 2, Chapter 11, p. 171|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.242743

23. To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.

24. (RQ:Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights) playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind (..)

25. (RQ:Bellow Augie March)

26. To inconsequentially toy ''with'' something.

27. (RQ:Dickens David Copperfield)

28. {{quote-text|en|year=1965|author=Muriel Spark|title=The Mandelbaum Gate|location=New York|publisher=Fawcett|year_published=1967|section=Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 151|url=https://archive.org/details/mandelbaumgate00spar

29. To squander or waste.

30. (RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice)

31. {{quote-book|en|year=1677|author=Hannah Woolley|title=The Compleat Servant-Maid|location=London|publisher=T. Passinger|page=62|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66839.0001.001

32. (RQ:Austen Persuasion)

33. {{quote-book|en|year=1925|author=Virginia Woolf|title=Mrs Dalloway|location=New York|publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich|year_published=1985|page=189|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/mrsdalloway000wool

34. To make a trifle of, to make trivial.

35. (RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth) but this sore night / Hath trifled former knowings.

36. (l) (gloss)