noun
- A cold pudding made of layers of sponge cake spread with fruit or jelly; may be decorated with nuts, cream, or chocolate.
- A detail that is considered insignificant.
- synonyms: technicality, triviality
- Something of small importance.
- synonyms: triviality, trivia, small beer
verb
- Waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently.
- synonyms: piddle, wanton, wanton away, piddle away
- Act frivolously.
- synonyms: frivol
- Consider not very seriously.
- usage: "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania"
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