trifle

n 1: jam-spread sponge cake soaked in wine served with custard

sauce

2: a detail that is considered insignificant [syn: {technicality},

{triviality}]

3: something of small importance [syn: {trivia}, {triviality},

{small beer}]

v 1: waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently [syn: {piddle},

{wanton}, {wanton away}, {piddle away}]

2: act frivolously [syn: {frivol}]

3: consider not very seriously; "He is trifiling with her";

"She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" [syn: {dally},

{play}]