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Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business. [Prov. Eng.] Bp. Hall.

A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] Spectator.

A trifling wound or pain, like that of the bite of a flea. Harvey.

Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsederate; pert; petulant. "Flippant epilogous." Thomson. To put flippant scorn to the blush. I. Taylor. A sort of flippant, vain discourse. Burke.

A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant. [Obs.] A trifling fly, none of your great familiars. B. Jonson.

Trifling; valued by folly; trivial. [Obs.] Shak.

Frivolous; trifling; sily.

Trifling; contemptible.

The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.

Given to trifling; marked with unbecoming levity; silly; interested especially in trifling matters. His personal tastes were low and frivolous. Macaulay.

Futile; trifling. [Obs.]

Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove. J. Morley.

Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren. "Deserts idle." Shak. Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Matt. xii. 36. Down their idle weapons dropped. Milton. This idle story became important. Macaulay.

Trifling. [R.] "Immoment toys." Shak.

Unimportant; trifling. [Obs.] "Trifling and inconcerning matters." Fuller.

hat he did evil. Wyclif(Col. iii. 25). Many times we do injury to a cause by dwelling on trifling arguments. I. Watts. Riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage. Milton.

Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy. Art thou good at these kickshawses! Shak.

In Louisiana, a trifling present given to customers by tradesmen; a gratuity.

Wanting sense or seriousness; trifling; trivolous; as, leer words.