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TRIAL - TRIVIALITY
TRIAL - nouns
• FAND † 1. the act of trying; trial, proof, experience ...c1250
† 2. the state of being tried; a trial, a temptation ...a1300
• FANDING † a testing or putting to the proof; a trial ...a1300
• FOND † 1. the act of trying; trial, proof, experience ...c1250
† 2. the state of being tried; a trial, a temptation ...a1300
• FONDING † a testing or putting to the proof; a trial ...a1300
• HANDSEL the first use, experience, trial, proof, or specimen of anything; first taste, foretaste, first fruits; often with the notion of its being auspicious of what is to follow ...1573
• HANSEL the first use, experience, trial, proof, or specimen of anything; first taste, foretaste, first fruits; often with the notion of its being auspicious of what is to follow ...1573
• SAY an assay, an attempt; a trial piece of work ...1723 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SAY-HAND an assay, a trial ...1709 Sc.
• SAY-PIECE † a trial piece of work; a first attempt at anything ...1773 Sc.
• TEMPTATION a trial ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TIRL a round or turn at doing anything; a slight experience or trial of something, a touch, a taste ...c1660 chiefly Sc.
TRIAL (court) - nouns
• CALENDAR a case awaiting trial ...1940s sl.
• DAY OF LAW, THE † the day of trial ...1565
• WAIL a legal trial ...1930s US criminals' sl.
TRIAL - verbs
• FAND † to put to the proof, to try, to test a person or thing; to make trial of one's strength or skill; to taste food, etc. ...c893
• FOND † to put to the proof, to try, to test a person or thing; to make trial of one's strength or skill; to taste food, etc. ...c893
• SCANCE to make trial of; to put to the test ...1804 Sc.
TRIAL (court) - verbs
• FULLY to commit someone for trial ...1849 sl.
TRIAL (court) - phrases
• HE'S STANDING ON THE TOP STEP of a man standing trial: there is every prospect he will be given the maxim sentence ...1950 cant
TRIANGLE - nouns
• SHANK † either of the sides of a triangle ...L16
• THREE-SQUARE a triangle ...1839 Eng. dial.
TRIANGLE (music) - nouns
• TING-A-LING in music: a triangle ...1941 Amer. dial.
TRIANGULAR - adjectives
• CATTY-CORNER triangular ...1969 Amer. dial.
• CATTY-CORNERED triangular ...1954 Amer. dial.
• THREE-BOB-SQUARE triangular ...1876 Eng. dial.
• THREE-NOOKED triangular ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• THREE-SQUARE triangular ...1896 Eng. dial.
TRIBULATION - nouns
• DERF † trouble, adversity, tribulation, hurt, suffering ...c1205
TRIBUTE - nouns
• FEE † a tribute or offering to a superior ...c1369
TRICK - adjectives (also see TRICKY)
• ANTIC clownish, amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful ...1902 Amer. dial.
• ANTIC AS A JAYBIRD clownish, amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful ...1917 Amer. dial.
• GAMMOCKY wild, full of tricks ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GYROTWISTIVE full of tricks and evasions ...1869 Amer. sl.
• MAGGOTTY frisky, playful, full of tricks, frolicsome ...1820 Eng. dial.
• NANNICKING full of apish tricks; trifling ...1815 Eng. dial.
• PRESTIGIATORY † practising 'prestigiation'; juggling, conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive ...1588
TRICK, TRICKERY, TRICKING - nouns
• AFFECT an affectation, a trick ...1588
• ANDRAMARTIN a silly trick; nonsense ...1894 Ireland
• ANKY-PRANKY trickery, underhand dealing, shuffling ...1886 Eng. dial.
• BACKSPANG an underhand trick, esp. a retreat from a bargain ...1892 Sc. & N. Ireland
• BAM a story intended to impose upon the credulous; a hoax or imposition; a trick, a joke ...1762 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BEGECK † a cheating disappointment; a trick ...c1600 obs. exc. Sc.
• BEGINK a befooling or deluding trick; a piece of deception ...1725 Sc.
• BEGONK a trick, a disappointment, misfortune ...1725 Eng. dial.
• BEGOWK a trick; jilting ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BEGUILE a deception, a trick; disappointment ...1637 Sc.
• BEGUNK a befooling or deluding trick; a piece of deception; a disappointment, misfortune ...1725 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BOO-BOO a prank, a trick ...E20 sl., orig. US
• BUG a trick or hoax ...1848 Amer. dial.
• CALEUP a frolic, a merry trick ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CANTILENE † an old song; silly prattle; idle tale, trick ...1535
• CANTRAP a mischievous trick; a magic spell ...1830 Amer. dial.
• CANTRIP a spell or charm of necromancy or witchcraft; a witch's trick or mischievous device; also jocosely, any playfully mischievous trick; any whimsically mad, eccentric, or extravagant piece of conduct ...1719
• CAPRICCIO a sudden sportive or fantastic motion; a prank, trick, caper ...1665
• CAST † a contrivance, device, artifice, trick ...c1340
• CATCH † a trick ...c1430
• CONY-CATCHING trickery; cheating; swindling ...L16 cant
• CUNNY-CATCHING trickery, cheating, swindling ...L16 sl.
• DAP a trick, ruse, artifice ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DEVILMENT mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery ...1844 Amer. dial.
• DEVILTRY mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery, wickedness, devilry ...1839 Sc. & Amer. dial.
• DIDOES tricks, antics, eccentric feats ...1835 Eng. dial.
• DINGDO a caper, a prank, a trick ...1900 Amer. dial.
• DODGERY the use of deception or trickery
• FADGE a trick ...M19 UK criminals' sl.
• FALLACE † deception, trickery, falsehood; deceitfulness ...a1300
• FALLAX † deception; guile, trickery; fallacy ...1530
• FALLAXITY † deception, guile, trickery; fallacy ...c1640
• FALSE POINT † a stroke of deceit; a trick ...a1529
• FAST ONE a trick intended to deceive or defraud; any scheme seen as immoral, corrupt, or underhand ...1923 US sl.
• FLANKER a trick or swindle, a hoax ...1923 Brit. sl., orig. services' usage
• FLY a trick, a 'dodge' ...c1860 sl.
• GADGE a trick ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAFF a gimmick, a hidden trick ...1960s sl.
• GALLIARDISE gaiety, mirth, revelry; also, a merry trick ...c1570 arch.
• GAME a trick, dodge; generally in plural ...1839 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• GAME, THE deception, trickery ...1950s US Black sl.
• GAMMET fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick ...1865 Eng. dial.
• GAMMETTING frolicking, whims, tricks, pranks ...1873 Eng. dial.
• GAMMOCK a joke, a trick, a prank; rough play ...1819 Eng. dial.
• GAMMON a joke, trick; play, sport, merriment ...1869 Eng. dial.
• GAMUT fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick ...1865 Eng. dial.
• GANSPEL a trick, caper ...1929 Sc.
• GAUD † a trick, a prank; often, a device to deceive, a piece of trickery, a pretense; also, a game, sport, or pastime ...a1300
• GAUDERY † trickery ...a1529
• GAWD † a trick, a prank; often, a device to deceive, a piece of trickery, a pretense; also, a game, sport, or pastime ...a1300
• GAWDRY † trickery ...a1529
• GEGG a trick, a hoax, a practical joke ...1855 Sc.
• GUY a trick or hoax; a prank, a jest, a joke ...1854 Amer. sl.
• GYP a trick or swindle ...1914 sl., orig. US
• HAMGAMS antics, tricks ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• HAMLIN a wile, a trick ...Bk1905 Sc.
• HANKY-PANKY jugglery, legerdemain; trickery, double dealing, underhand dealing; dishonest or corrupt activity; deceit ...1841 sl.
• HANKY-PANKYING humbugging, cheating, tricking ...1868 Eng. dial.
• HAWKERY-PAWKERY deceit, unfairness, trickery, hocus-pocus ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HENKY-PENKY trickery, underhand dealing, shuffling ...1886 Eng. dial.
• HICCIUS DOCIUS * a formula used by a juggler when performing a trick; a feat of dexterity; a clever trick ...L17
• HOCUS-POCUS a juggler's trick; thus any form of imposture, trickery ...E18 sl.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY deceit, trickery, imposture ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HOOKER a trick or concealed drawback; a catch ...1966 Amer. sl.
• HYPE originally applied specifically to the deliberate giving of short change, and hence to any cheating or trickery ...1926 sl., orig. US
• ILL-PRAT a mischievous trick ...Bk1905 Sc.
• ILL TRICK a mischievous trick ...1899 Sc.
• IRISH TRICK a dirty trick ...1966 Amer. dial.
• ITEM an intention, purpose; a crafty design; a trick; a fancy, a fad ...1887 Eng. dial.
• JAPE † a trick, a device to deceive or cheat ...a1300
• JAPERY † trickery, deception ...1496
• JEOPARDY † a device, trick, stratagem ...1375
• KANCUMS tricks, pranks ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• KEDIDOES capers, pranks, tricks ...1914 Amer. dial.
• KINK a development or aspect, esp. if surprising, clever, or tricky; a wrinkle; also, a tricky way of doing something ...1825 Amer. sl.
• LAIGZ a trick ...1940s W. Indies sl.
• LAITS tricks, pranks ...1805 Sc.
• LAKES † games, tricks, goings on ...c1200
• LARK a frolicsome adventure; a spree; a piece of merriment or mischief; fun of any kind; a trick ...1802 colloq.
• LEGERDEMAIN 1. trickery, deception, hocus-pocus ...1532
† 2. a trick, a juggle ...1550
• LIRIPOOP † a shrewd trick or stratagem ...1605
• MAGGOTS tricks; nonsense ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MAGOO, THE a lie, a trick, a hoax ...1930s US sl.
• MANAGEMENT a piece of trickery ...1736
• MANK a prank, a trick; a practical joke ...1878 Eng. dial.
• MARLOCK a prank, frolic, a gambol, a lark; a playful trick, a practical joke; a piece of fun or mischief ...1864 Eng. dial.
• MAWK a whim, a foolish fancy; a joke; a trick ...1790 Eng. dial.
• MAXIMS pranks, tricks, practical jokes ...1867 Eng. dial.
• MAY-GAMES tricks, frolics, antics, practical jokes; whims, fancies ...1825 Eng. dial.
• MAYLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke; a noisy disturbance, an uproar, a row ...1864 Eng. dial.
• MEGRIMS antics, tricks; gesticulations; grimaces ...1890 Eng. dial.
• MEG'S DIVERSIONS tricks, frolics, rattling fun ...1873 Eng. dial.
• MONKEY BUSINESS foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour ...1883 Amer. sl.
• MONKEY CAPERS monkey business ...1846 Amer. sl.
• MONKEY PLAY foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour ...1953 Amer. sl.
• MONKEY SHINE tricks or antics ...E19 US sl.
• MONKEY SHINES tricks or antics ...E19 US sl.
• MONKEY WORK trickery, mischief ...L19 sl.
• MORLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke; a noisy disturbance, an uproar, a row ...1864 Eng. dial.
• NAAM a trick, a sign of an evil or mischievous disposition ...1911 Sc.
• OKEY-DOKE a swindle, trick or deception; a confidence trick ...1967 sl., esp. Black usage
• OLD ARMY GAME, THE any form of trickery, deception, or evasion ...1910 Amer. sl.
• OLD MOODY a cunning trick, a fraud ...1930s sl.
• PAGEANT † a part acted to deceive or impose upon anyone; a trick ...c1380
• PENNY-COME-QUICK a trick ...Bk1903 rhyming sl.
• PHONY JAZZ a lie; a trick; deliberate misinformation ...1950s US Black sl.
• PLISKY a mischievous escapade; a trick, a prank; a practical joke; a frolic ...1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• PULL an illicit trick or manipulation ...1861 card-sharpers' usage
• QUAFT a trick ...1881 Eng. dial.
• QUAINTISE † a device, a stratagem, a trick; an instance of cleverness, cunning, or craft ...1297
• QUEEF a stratagem, a dodge, a trick; a conjuring trick, a piece of sleight of hand; cunning ...1923 Sc.
• QUEER FUN a cheat or trick that does not work out as intended ...L7 UK criminals' sl.
• QUIBLIN † a pun or quibble; a trick ...1605
• QUICKIE an unexpected, quickly executed manoeuvre or piece of trickery ...1950 US sl.
• QUIFF a dodge, a trick; a knack; a verbal catch ...1881 Eng. dial.
• QUIPS AND QUIRKS tricks, sharp practices ...1871 Eng. dial.
• QUIRK a dodge, a trick; a quibble, catch; a question asked in order to elicit information ...1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RACKET a swindle or a means of deception; criminal trickery; hoaxing; a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action ...1812 sl.
• RANNYGAZOO a deceptive story or scheme; a caper; a prank; a trick; horseplay; nonsense; irrelevant, irritating activity ...L19 Amer. sl.
• REAK † a trick, a prank; a stratagem, an artifice ...1629 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RIG a joke, a prank, a trick, a frolic ...1858 Amer. dial.
• RORT a dodge, a trick, a scheme, a racket; a fraudulent or dishonest practice ...c1910 Aust. sl.
• SAMFIEISM deceit, trickery ...20C W. Indies sl.
• SANDY a bluff, a deception, a trick, a joke ...1916 Amer. dial.
• SCHLEINTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SCHLENTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SCONCE a pretext; an apology, an excuse; a trick; deception ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCREW a dishonest trick; an imposture; a cheat ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SHENANIGAN a mischievous or deceitful trick ...19C Amer. colloq.
• SHENANIGANS deceit, trickery ...19C Amer. colloq.
• SHINE a caper, a prank, a trick ...1836 Amer. dial.
• SHLANTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SHLINTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SINONISM a trick, deception; a treacherous act ...1864
• SKIFT † an artifice, device, or trick ...c1460
• SKIT a trick; a hoax; a practical joke ...1815 chiefly Eng. dial.
• SKITE a trick; a hoax; a practical joke ...1804 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• SLANTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SLINTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SPOOFERY trickery, hoaxing ...L19 sl.
• STROKE an underhanded trick ...1970 Brit. sl.
• SUBTLETY † a wily stratagem or trick, something craftily invented; a crafty or cunning device, an artifice ...1375
• SUCK a cheat; a trick ...Bk1904 sl.
• SUCK-IN a deception; a disappointing event or result; cheat, a trick ...1856 sl.
• SWIFTIE a deceptive trick ...1945 Aust. sl.
• SWIFTY. a deceptive trick ...1945 Aust. sl.
• TRICKERATION a trick or stratagem ...1940 US Black sl.
• VAGES † pranks or tricks ...1523
• VAGUES † pranks or tricks ...1523
• WAGS tricks, mischievous behaviour ...1835 Sc.
TRICK, TRICKSTER - nouns, person
• ANOINTER a trickster, a sharp, crafty person ...1885 Eng. dial.
• BAFFLER † a juggler, a trickster; a trifler ...1606
• CONY-CATCHER a deceiver; a trickster; a sharper ...c1590 cant
• IKEY one who plays a duplicitous, 'sharp' trick ...L19 sl.
• JAPER † a trickster, a deceiver, a seducer, an impostor ...1362
• JIGGER a shifty fellow; a trickster ...1675 sl.
• KAN-KAYERS tricksters; confederates who unite to disparage anything they wish to buy, or make fictitious offers and praise anything they wish to sell ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• MANNICK one who plays tricks ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NINETER a trickster, a sharp, crafty person ...1885 Eng. dial.
• NOINTER a trickster, a sharp, crafty person ...1885 Eng. dial.
• RAG OUT a person who plays tricks; something unpleasant ...1970s US campus sl.
• RAJ a villain, a trickster ...1940s W. Indies sl.
• SHARPER a person who habitually cheats, swindles, or tricks another; often applied to a fraudulent card player or other gambler ...1681 colloq.
• SHARPSTER a person who habitually cheats, swindles, or tricks another, esp. in card games ...1942 colloq., chiefly US
TRICK - verbs
• ANKY-PRANKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• BABOONIZE IT † to play the ape; to use apish or foolish tricks or knavish pranks ...1611
• BAM to hoax, to practice on the credulity of; to deceive, to delude, to impose upon, to play a joke or trick on a person...1738 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BAMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to confuse ...1842 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• BANTER to impose upon a person, orig, in jest; to delude, to cheat, to trick, to bamboozle ...a1688 arch.
• BEAT to cheat; to swindle; to bilk; to trick ...1849 Amer. sl.
• BEGOUK to trick, to befool; to jilt ...1862 Sc.
• BEGOWK to trick, to befool; to jilt ...1862 Sc.
• BEGUILE † to cheat hopes, expectations, aims, or a person in them; to trick; to disappoint, to deprive of, to foil ...1483 obs. exc. Sc.
• BEGUNK to delude, to play a deceiving trick on, to 'take in'; to cheat, do deceive; to jilt...1821 Sc.
• BEJAPE † to play a trick on; to trick or befool ...1377
• BE ON THE MARLOCK to play tricks ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• BUMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex ...1880 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• CALDEE(S) to trick; to swindle ...M17 sl.
• CEDAR BIRD to deceive or trick; to make a patsy or fall guy of someone ...1984 Amer. dial.
• CHAFF to talk nonsense, to joke; to banter, to tease, to make fun of; to trick, to deceive ...1872 Amer. dial.
• CHALDEE to trick; to swindle ...M17 sl.
• CHUMP to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone ...1920s sl.
• CHUMP OUT to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone ...1920s sl.
• COME IT OVER SOMEONE to try to get the better of someone by trickery ...1827 sl.
• COME IT WITH SOMEONE to try to get the better of someone by trickery ...1827 sl.
• CONY-CATCH to cheat, to trick, to deceive ...L16 cant
• CUT SHINES to behave in a comic, boisterous, or unruly manner; to play tricks on someone; to make a conspicuous display of oneself ...1848 Amer. dial.
• CUT UP MONKEY-SHINES to play tricks ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• CUT UP SHINES to play tricks ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• DAUB to cheat, to deceive, to trick ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DEAL ON to trick, to deceive, to take advantage ...1970s US Black sl.
• DO A FLANKER to trick, to swindle ...1920s sl.
• EMPTY to trick, to swindle ...L19 UK criminals' sl.
• EUCHRE to defeat; to outwit; to swindle; to cheat, to trick ...1853 Amer. dial.
• EUCHRE OUT to defeat; to outwit; to cheat, to trick ...1853 Amer. dial.
• FINAGLE to wangle, to manoeuvre, to obtain by devious means; to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion ...1922 Amer. dial.
• FAKE to trick, to fool; to cheat; to swindle; to deceive ...1859 sl.
• FINAGLE to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion; to wangle ...1927 US sl.
• FLANK to trick out of ...M19 US sl., orig. military
• FLUMMOX to fool, to confuse, to overcome by trickery ...19C sl.
• FLUMMUX to fool, to confuse, to overcome by trickery ...19C sl.
• FOB OFF 1. to appease or trick a person with lies or excuses
2. to dispose of goods by trickery
• GAMBLE to deceive, to play a trick upon; to 'gammon' ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAME to deceive, to mislead, to trick ...1963 US sl.
• GEGG to hoax, to play a trick on ...1826 Sc.
• GIVE A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• GIVE ONE THE GECK to mock, to trick, to deceive one ...1583
• GO ON THE ABRAHAM SUIT to resort to trick or artifice ...Bk1909 cant
• GUY to hoax, to trick, to put on ...1890 Amer. sl.
• HANKY-PANKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HENKY-PENKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HORSE to trick or deceive; to swindle; also, to hoax, to bluff, to flatter, to lie to ...1891 US sl.
• ILLUDE * to trick, to impose upon, to deceive with false hopes ...1447
• JABEZ to play a dirty trick ...1923 sl.
• JAG to annoy, to irritate, to play tricks on; to disparage; to reject ...1968 Amer. dial.
• JAG AROUND to habitually play tricks or jokes on people ...1968 Amer. dial.
• JAG OFF to annoy, to irritate, to play tricks on; to disparage; to reject ...1968 Amer. dial.
• JAPE † to trick, to beguile, to befool, to deceive ...1362
• JOLLY to tease roughly, to chaff, to abuse, to trick ...M19 sl., ?orig. US
• KIMBAW to trick, cheat, or cozen ...1865 sl.
• LARK to play tricks, to frolic ...1813 colloq.
• LEAD DOWN THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease ...1920s sl.
• LEAD UP THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease ...1920s sl.
• LEGERDEMAIN † to perform tricks, to use deceit ...1483
• LOAD to deceive, to trick, to mislead ...1906 Amer. dial.
• LOAD UP to deceive, to trick, to mislead ...1883 Amer. dial.
• MAKE A MAY-GAME OF to play games with; to trick or deceive ...L17 sl.
• MANK to prank, to romp; to play tricks; to pretend to work, to gossip ...1864 Eng. dial.
• MANNICK to play tricks ...1863 Eng. dial.
• MONKEY-SHINE to misbehave; to play tricks ...20C US sl.
• NAB to cheat, to trick; to cheat with dice ...L17 sl.
• OOTCH to cheat or trick ...1940s US sl.
• OOTZ to cheat or trick ...1940s US sl.
• PALM † to play a trick, to cheat; to impose upon a person ...1686
• PALTER to shift, to shuffle, to equivocate, to prevaricate in statement or dealing; to deal crookedly or evasively; to play fast and loose, to use trickery ...1601
• PLAY A PERSON A REEL to play him a trick, to give him a scare ...1884 N. Ireland
• PLAY CAPS AND BELLS to act like a prankster; to play tricks or jokes on people ...1969 Amer. dial.
• PLAY ONE A PAGEANT † to play him a trick; to impose upon or deceive him ...1530
• PLAY THE JACK † to play the rogue or knave; to do a mean trick ...1609
• PLAY THE NANNY-GOAT to behave like a fool; to play foolish tricks ...1900 Eng. dial.
• PLAY THE WAG to be mischievous; to play tricks ...c1585
• PUGGY to play tricks on, to befool ...1891 Sc.
• PULL A FAST ONE to do something daring (often a criminal act) and hope to get away with it by being smarter, faster, and more deceitful than those set to prevent you; to play a dirty trick ...1943 UK sl., orig. military
• PULL A FLANKER to trick, to swindle ...1920s sl.
• PULL A STROKE to do something daring (often a criminal act) and get away with it by being smarter, faster, and more deceitful than those set to prevent you; to play a dirty trick ...1970 UK sl.
• PULL A SWIFTIE to execute or attempt a deception; to achieve a clever fraud or swindle; to play a deceptive trick ...1945 Aust. sl.
• PUT THE BUG ON to trick or hoax; to get an advantage over somebody by tricky means ...1848 Amer. dial.
• PUT THE FUN UPON to trick; to cheat ...L17 sl.
• QUAFT to trick, to deceive ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUEER A FLAT to hoodwink a gullible victim; to deceive or trick ...L18 sl.
• QUIFF to come up with a cunning dodge or trick; to go or do well, to get along pleasantly ...L19 sl.
• QUIRK to cheat, to overreach; to elude by stratagem; to play a trick or prank ...1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RACKETEER to practise any form of criminal deception, trickery, extortion, etc. ...1920s sl.
• RAMP to tease, to banter, to trick ...1980s UK Black sl.
• RIG to trick; to steal ...Bk1903 sl.
• RUN A DRAG ON to deceive, to trick, to hoax ...1980s US Black sl.
• RUN A GAME ON to bamboozle, to deceive, to seduce, to confuse, to obtain money by trickery ...1960s US Black sl.
• RUN A HOOLIGAN ON to play tricks on, to defraud ...1920s US sl.
• RUN A SANDY to bluff; to play a trick on someone ...1897 Amer. dial.
• RUN A SANDY ON to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude ...1914 Amer. dial.
• RUN A SANDY OVER to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude ...1923 Amer. dial.
• SCAM to defraud, to trick ...1950s sl.
• SCAM OUT to defraud, to trick ...1950s sl.
• SCAMP to play mischievous tricks ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCONCE to extort, to cheat; to trick out of ...1796 Sc.
• SELL to deceive, to cheat, to trick ...1849 sl.
• SELL OUT to deceive, to cheat, to trick ...1884 Amer. dial.
• SHAFT to cheat; to trick; to deceive; to abuse ...1970s US Black sl.
• SHARP to cheat, swindle or trick a person, esp. at cards ...L17 colloq.
• SHUCK to cheat, to deceive, to trick, to mislead someone ...1959 Amer. dial.
• SLUR † to cheat or trick a person ...M17
• SNOOKER to trick, to cheat; to swindle ...1900s sl.
• SPOOF to hoax, to fool, to trick ...L19 sl.
• STRING ALONG to deceive, cheat, trick ...colloq.
• TAKE FOR A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• TAKE FOR A TROT to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• TAKE IN to deceive, to cheat, to trick, to impose upon, to hoax ...1740 colloq.
• WOOL to strip of possessions, esp. by trickery; to outdo by trickery ...1841 Amer. dial.
• WORK A FLANKER to trick, to swindle ...1920s sl.
• YANK to cheat; to trick ...US Civil War usage
TRICKED - adjectives
• HAD tricked, hoaxed, deceived ...L18 sl.
• MADE cheated, tricked ...1950s US sl.
TRICKED - nouns, person
• ICE-CREAM someone who can be easily tricked ...1980s rhyming sl. for 'geezer' (Ice-cream Freezer)
• ICE-CREAM FREEZER someone who can be easily tricked ...1980s rhyming sl. for 'geezer'
• PIGEON a person easily swindled or tricked, esp. in gaming ...L16 sl.
• TOOL a dupe; someone easily tricked ...M17 sl.
TRICKED - verbs
• GET A GECK to be deceived or tricked ...1568
TRICKED - phrases
• I CAUGHT THAT ILL VIBE I was tricked ...1990s US Black teen sl.
TRICKERY - adjectives
• GAUDY † full of trickery ...a1529
• GAWDY † full of trickery ...a1529
• UNMONKEYABLE of a person: impervious to trickery ...1910s sl.
TRICKILY - adverbs
• PALTERLY †* shiftily, trickily ...1598
TRICKINESS - nouns
• RAKE any form of trickiness, such as a duplicitous answer that hides the true situation ...1950s W. Indies sl.
TRICKING - adjectives
• KIDLING tricking, cozening ...B1900 Eng. dial.
TRICKLE - nouns
• TRINKLE a trickle ...1891 Amer. dial.
TRICKLE - verbs
• DILDER to dribble, to ooze, to trickle, to glide ...Bk1900 Sc.
• HAPPLE to trickle, to roll down, as tears ...1791 Sc.
• SIPE to drip or trickle slowly ...c1000 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• TRINKLE to trickle ...1835 Amer. dial.
TRICKY - adjectives
• CADDLING of persons: tricky, pettifogging, shuffling ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CAGERY tricky ...1883 Eng. dial.
• FASHIOUS of a task: tricky, ticklish ...1731 Sc.
• FASHOUS troublesome, annoying, irksome; of a task: tricky, ticklish ...1731 Sc.
• GAFTY sly, tricky, cunning, not to be trusted; mischievous, vicious ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY deceitful, tricky, sly ...1892 Eng. dial.
• ILL-CONTRIVED ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous ...1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ILL-CONTRIVING ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous ...1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ITEMY trifling; tricky, fidgety ...1889 Eng. dial.
• JADISH malicious; tricky; untrustworthy ...Bk1896 sl.
• LEGERDEMAIN pert. to legerdemain or jugglery; juggling; tricky ...1576
• NASTIFIED dishonourable, tricky, ungentlemanly ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PLISKY given to playing tricks; tricky, mischievous, frolicsome ...1887 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• QUIRKIE cunning, wily, resourceful, tricky ...1806 Sc.
• QUIRKSOME * quirky; full of quirks or shifts; tricky ...1896
• QUIRKY cunning, wily, resourceful, tricky ...1806 Sc.
• SCALY miserly, stingy, mean; thievish, dishonest, tricky ...1851 Eng. dial.
• SCHEMY scheming; devious, tricky, sly ...1888 Amer. dial.
• SKITTISH fickle, inconstant, changeable; tricky, difficult to deal with or manage ...1601
• TACKY tricky, hard to beat, cunning ...1950s W. Indies sl.
• WAFF troublesome, unchancy, tricky ...1865 Sc.
TRICKY - nouns, person
• CHAPARRAL FOX a sneak, or a sly, tricky person ...1932 Amer. dial.
• LAD a mischievous, tricky fellow ...19C Anglo-Irish
• NACKET a pert, tricky, or precocious child; an imp ...1887 Sc.
TRICYCLE - nouns
• DANDY-HORSE a tricycle or bicycle ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FLY-AWAY a tricycle ...1887 sl.
• IRON-HORSE a tricycle or bicycle ...1875 sl.
• RANTOONE † a form of tricycle formerly in use; it had a small wheel in front, and two larger wheels behind, and was guided by means of the front wheel ...1869
TRIDENT - nouns
• MACE † the trident of Neptune ...1582
TRIED - adjectives
• YFONDED † attempted, tried, tested, tempted ...c1175
TRIFLE - nouns (also see TRIFLING)
• ALMOND FOR A PARROT a trifle for a small mind ...18C Eng.
• BABLE a trifle; a trifling thing or person ...1570 Sc.
• BAFFIN a trifle, a thing of no value ...1866 Sc.
• BAFFLE a trifle; a thing of no value ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BAGATELLE a trifle; a thing of no importance; a matter of little worth ...c1645
• BAGGAGE † a trifle, a trashy article ...1579
• BARLEY-STRAW a trifle ...a1721
• BAUBEE a trifle, anything of little value ...1906 Amer. dial.
• BAWBEE a trifle; anything of little value ...1953 Amer. dial.
• BOBEE a trifle, anything of little value ...1866 Amer. dial.
• BRIMBORION a thing without value or use; anything worthless; a trifling object kept as a charm or gewgaw, a trifle; trash, nonsense ...1653
• BULL-SQUITTER much fuss or talk about a trifle ...19C Eng. dial.
• CANDLE-ENDS things of short duration or of little value; trifles, fragments, scraps ...a1626
• FADDLEMENTS trifles, novelties ...1891 Eng. dial.
• FADOODLE †* something foolish or ridiculous; nonsense; a mere nothing; a useless trifle ...a1670
• FALDERAL a gewgaw, a trifle; a flimsy thing ...c1820
• FALDERDAL a gewgaw, a trifle, a useless ornament; finery ...1828 Eng. dial.
• FAL DE ROL a gewgaw, a trifle; a flimsy thing ...c1820
• FALLALS finery, trumpery ornaments, trifles, gewgaws ...1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FANDANGS AND FEATHERMENTS trinkets, trifles, personal adornments ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FEATHER anything of little strength or importance; a very small amount, a trifle ...1601
• FEGARY * a gewgaw; a trifle; finery in dress ...E18 Eng. dial. & colloq.
• FEWTRILS little unimportant things, trifles ...c1750 Eng. dial.
• FINGLE-FANGLE † a trifle; a thing of no importance; something whimsical or fantastic ...1678
• FIP the slightest thing; a trifle ...1897 Amer. dial.
• FLAMFEW a gaudy ornament; a dazzling trifle; a gewgaw; something pretty and of little value ...1580 arch.
• FOLDEROL a gewgaw, a trifle; a flimsy thing ...c1820
• FOL-DE-ROLL a gewgaw, a trifle, a useless ornament; finery ...1828 Eng. dial.
• FOLDIDOL a gewgaw, a trifle, a useless ornament; finery ...1828 Eng. dial.
• FRIGGLE-FRAGGLES toys, trifles, gewgaws; useless, vain ornaments of dress ...19C Sc.
• FRIM-FRAM a trifle, a whim, a fancy, an invention ...1847 Sc.
• HAIR a very small portion or quantity of anything; a trifle; the smallest possible amount ...1821 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• HAIR TO MAKE A TETHER OF, A a slight pretext of which to make a great deal; a fuss about nothing, a trifle used as an excuse ...1727
• IMPERTINENCES something unsuitable, out of place, trivial, or irrational; an incongruity; a trifle, absurdity, piece of folly ...1603
• ITEMS trifles, finery ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• ITEMY a trifle ...1890 Eng. dial.
• JAPE † a trifle, a toy, a trinket, a plaything ...1436
• JIGGALORUM † a fanciful thing of little value; a trifle ...1613 colloq.
• LAKETS trifles, odd things; small sums of money ...1677 Eng. dial.
• LAKING a toy, a plaything; a trifle ...1790 Eng. dial.
• MEE-MAW a trifle, a gewgaw ...1899 Eng. dial.
• MENTION a trifle; a little bit ...1892 Sc.
• NANNICK a valueless trifle; a knickknack ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NIFF-NAFF a trifling or unimportant thing or matter; something of little value; a knick-knack, a trifle, a bauble; anything very small ...1838 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NIGNAY a knickknack, a trinket, a trifle; a trifling, useless thing or proceeding; an unnecessary ornament or frill, a gewgaw ...a1689 Sc.
• ODDMENT a scrap, a fragment, a remnant; a trifle ...1825 Eng. dial.
• OLD SONG a trifle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PALTERINGS † trifles, worthless or paltry things ...1611
• QUINKINS a mere nothing; a worthless trifle ...1825 Sc.
• STRAW a trifle, a trivial matter ...L17
• TANTADDLEMENT a trifle ...1887 Eng. dial.
• TERRICK † a trifle; a little thing ...1777 Eng. dial.
• THING OF NOTHING a trifle, next to nothing ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• THING OF NOUGHT a trifle, next to nothing ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TIRLY-TOY a trifle, a toy ...a1807 Sc.
• TRICKS small articles or personal belongings; toys, knickknacks, trifles ...1869 Amer. dial.
• TRIM-TRAM † a personal ornament of little value; a pretty toy or trifle; a gewgaw; a worthless thing ...1523
• TRITTLE-TRATTLES * trifles, gewgaws, knickknacks; children's toys ...1896 Sc.
• VANDAVIL a trifle; a thing of little value ...Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLY-DYE a toy, a knickknack, a trifle, a piece of ornamentation or finery ...1802 Sc.
TRIFLE - verbs
• ARSE AROUND to idle, to loaf, to loiter, to fool about, to act irresponsibly, to trifle ...1664
• ASS AROUND to fool around, to loiter, to waste time; to wander aimlessly; to be idle; to act irresponsibly; to trifle ...1914 Amer. sl.
• ASSHOLE AROUND to loaf; to trifle; to wander idly about; to waste time ...1968 Amer. sl.
• ASSLE AROUND to fidget; to trifle ...1920 Amer. sl.
• BAUBLE † to trifle ...1608
• BEAT AROUND to potter, to trifle, to loaf or idle; to gad about; to wander aimlessly ...1960 Amer. dial.
• CADDLE to loaf, to loiter, to potter about, to fuss, to trifle ...1892 Eng. dial.
• DADDLE to be slow in motion or action; to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to saunter ...1756 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DAIDLE to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to move or act slowly or in a slovenly manner; to saunter; to loiter ...1756 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DALLY OFF † to put off or defer by trifling ...1574
• DALLY OUT † to trifle with, to elude ...1548
• DANDER to trifle, to misspend one's time ...L16 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DANDLE † to trifle, to play or toy with ...1569
• DANER to trifle, to misspend one's time; to hobble ...1727 Sc.
• DANNER to trifle, to misspend one's time; to hobble ...1727 Sc.
• DAUNDER to trifle, to misspend one's time; to hobble ...1727 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DIDDLE to busy oneself with trifles; to show great activity without accomplishing much; to waste time by dawdling ...1868 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DIDDLE-DADDLE to busy oneself with trifles; to show great activity without accomplishing much; to waste time by dawdling ...1868 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DILDER to trifle, to waste time, to work carelessly ...Bk1900 Sc.
• DONDER to trifle, to misspend one's time; to hobble ...1727 Eng. dial.
• DRUTTLE to dawdle, to waste time, to trifle ...19C Scot
• FAD to busy oneself about trifles; to look after affairs in a quiet way ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FADDLE † to trifle, to toy, to play ...1755 Eng. dial.
• FAFFLE † to saunter, to trifle; to fumble, to work dilatorily ...Bk1900 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• FANDANGLE to hang about, to trifle, to waste time, to 'fool' around ...1892 Ireland
• FANFERLUCHE † to trifle; to act wantonly ...1653
• FANFRELUCHE † to trifle; to act wantonly ...1653
• FEAK to flutter, to be officiously busy about trifles, to be idle, to fidget; to be uneasy or anxious ...1775 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FIRTLE to trifle, to dawdle, to appear busy and do little; to fidget, to move about distractedly ...1881 Eng. dial.
• FOOZLE to trifle away one's time ...colloq.
• FRIBBLE in early use, to act aimlessly or feebly, to busy oneself to no purpose; to fuss about; later, contemptuously (except dialect), to behave frivolously, to trifle ...1640
• GAMFLE to idle, to dally; to neglect one's work from foolish merriment; to act foolishly like lads and lasses at a fair; to frolic, to trifle ...1808 Sc.
• GAMMER to idle, to trifle, to gossip; to saunter, to dawdle ...1788 Eng. dial.
• GAMMER ABOUT to idle, to trifle, to gossip; to saunter, to dawdle ...1788 Eng. dial.
• GAMMER AWAY to idle, to trifle, to gossip; to saunter, to dawdle ...1788 Eng. dial.
• GUCK † to trifle; to play the fool ...c1560 Sc.
• HORSE to indulge in rough jokes or horseplay; to fool around; hence, to waste time in trifling activity; also, to philander (now usually with 'around')...1900 US sl.
• JACKASS ABOUT to be occupied with trifles; to be busy to no purpose ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• JAFF to pass time in a light-hearted convivial manner; to trifle ...1830 Sc.
• JAKE to trifle, to delay, to dawdle ...1568 Sc.
• JAMPH to trifle, to spend time idly; to walk in a slow, idle manner ...1788 Sc.
• JANK to trifle, to shuffle ...1697 Sc.
• JAPE to trifle; to scoff ...Bk1896 sl.
• JAUK to trifle, to delay, to dawdle ...1568 Sc.
• JAUMPH to trifle, to spend time idly; to walk in a slow, idle manner ...1788 Sc.
• LAKE to idle, to trifle; to stop work, to be out of employment ...1856 Eng. dial.
• MAGINATE †* to trifle ...1623
• MAKE CHILDREN'S SHOES to be occupied absurdly or trivially; to look ridiculous; to be made to look ridiculous; to trifle with ...L17
• MAZLE to wander aimlessly about; to trifle; to do anything unskilfully ...1747 Eng. dial.
• MAZZLE to wander aimlessly about; to trifle; to do anything unskilfully ...1747 Eng. dial.
• MONK to tinker, trifle, or fool around; to tamper or interfere with surreptitiously ...1889-90 Amer. sl.
• MONKEY to tinker, trifle, or fool around; to fritter away one's time; usually used with 'with' ...1877-78 Amer. sl.
• MUCK ABOUT to fool around; to trifle with ...1946 Aust. sl.
• NAFF to work in a weak, trifling manner; to trifle, to be frivolous ...Bk1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NAFFLE to trifle away time; to potter about; to loiter; to act foolishly ...1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NATTLE to be bustling and stirring about trifles; to be very busy in doing nothing at all ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NESTLE † to be uneasy or restless; to fidget; to move or bustle about; to trifle ...a1700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• NIFF-NAFF to trifle; to toy; to take finicking trouble; to talk or act foolishly or aimlessly ...1728 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NIGNAY to trifle, to fuss about, to work without result; to hum and haw, to be undecided, to vacillate; to do what is useless; to show reluctance ...1880 Sc.
• ODDLE to go about in an uncertain or useless way; to trifle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PADDLE † to trifle; to deal in a petty trifling way ...a1620
• PADGEL to trifle, to dally ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PALTER to play fast and loose with a matter or thing; to dilly-dally, to trifle with ...1814
• PANDER to trifle at one's work ...Bk1905 Sc.
• PIDDLE to dawdle; to potter; to concern oneself with trifles; to waste one's time ...1774 Amer. dial.
• PIDDLE ABOUT to dawdle; to potter; to concern oneself with trifles; to waste one's time ...1774 Amer. dial.
• PIDDLE AROUND to dawdle; to potter; to concern oneself with trifles; to waste one's time ...1774 Amer. dial.
• PIDDLE AWAY to waste by trifling ...1909 Amer. dial.
• PIFFLE to talk or act in a feeble or trifling way ...M19 colloq.
• PIGGLE to trifle with ...E20 Eng. dial.
• POWTER to potter about; to do trifling simple tasks ...Scot and Irish
• PUITHERNAWL to be busy with trifles ...1960 Irish sl.
• QUEETER to work lazily and languidly, to trifle, to waste time ...1866 Sc.
• QUIDDLE † 1. to trifle or play with ...a1652
2. to trifle, to waste time; to be anxious about trifles; to fuss about, to fidget ...1832 now chiefly Eng. & Amer. dial.
• SANTER to trifle, to play about in a casual offhand manner ...a1810 Sc.
• SAUNTER to trifle, to play about in a casual offhand manner ...a1810 Sc.
• TAFFLE to trifle, to idle, to loiter ...1854 Eng. dial.
• TAIVER to roam about aimlessly or idly; to dally, to trifle, to waste time ...1808 Sc.
• TANKLE to idle, to trifle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TANTLE to walk slowly and feebly; to totter, as a young child; to dawdle, to loiter, to waste time; trifle, to potter about ...1889 Eng. dial.
• TAVER to roam about aimlessly or idly; to dally, to trifle, to waste time ...1808 Sc.
• TEATLE to dawdle, to trifle; to idle away time ...1890 Eng. dial.
• THRIMBLE to fumble; to hesitate, to trifle ...1781 Eng. dial.
• TICK AND TOY to trifle ...1550
• TIDDLE † to potter; to trifle; to fidget, to fuss ...1747 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.
• TIFF † to be idly employed, to be busy about trifles ...c1440
• TIFFLE † to busy oneself idly; to trifle; to potter about ...c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• TIFFY-TAFFY to dawdle, to trifle ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TIG to trifle; to dally with ...1634
• TINKER to trifle, to potter ...1658
• TITTLE † to potter; to trifle; to fidget, to fuss ...17C obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.
• YAFFLE to trifle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
TRIFLER, TRIFLING - nouns, person
• BABLE a trifle; a trifling thing or person ...1570 Sc.
• BAFFLER † a juggler, a trickster; a trifler ...1606
• BAUBLE † a childish or foolish person; a silly trifler ...a1606
• BRIGGLER one who attempts but never finishes anything; a trifler ...1930 Amer. dial.
• CLUFF an idle, trifling person ...1825 Sc.
• DADDLER a trifler ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DAIDLER a trifler ...1882 Sc.
• DANDLER one who dallies, a trifler ...1598
• EEDLE-DODDLE a person who shows no initiative in a crisis; a puddling person who concerns himself with little trifles ...1911 Sc.
• EEDLE-ODDLE a person who shows no initiative in a crisis; a puddling person who concerns himself with little trifles ...1911 Sc.
• FADDLE a trifling person; a busybody ..19C colloq. & Eng. dial.
• FADDLER one who trifles ...1888 Eng. dial.
• FIDDLE-A-DING a nickname for a trifling person ...1904 Amer. dial.
• FRIBBLE a trifling, frivolous fellow; one not occupied in serious employment, a trifler; a silly oaf ...1664
• INCOMPOOT a nincompoop, a fool, a silly person, a trifler ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• KNICK-KNACKER †* a trifler ...1622
• MAN-MILLINER a man who makes or vends millinery; hence, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments ...1792
• MAWMSEY a silly, awkward, trifling fellow ...1881 Eng. dial.
• NACKET a pert, forward, smart boy; a trifling little person; an insignificant person; a wicked, mischievous, or impertinent child; a precocious child ...1833 Sc.
• NAFFLER a person busy about trifles; one who accomplishes little ...Bk1903 Eng. dial.
• PALTERER a trifler with serious matters ...1642
• PIDDELER a trifler; an idle, worthless person; a good-for-nothing ...1779 Amer. dial.
• PIDDLER a trifler; an idle, worthless person; a good-for-nothing ...1779 Amer. dial.
• POCOCURANTE a careless or indifferent person; one who shows little interest or concern; a trifler ...1762
• QUIDDLE a fussy, over-particular, or fastidious person; one hard to satisfy in trifling matters of diet, etc.; one who wastes his energy about trifles ...1856 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• QUIDDLER one who fusses over small matters, or spends time in trifling niceties ...1835 Amer. dial.
• SAUNTERER † a dawdler, a trifler ...1688
• SHOAT a person; an idle, trifling, worthless fellow ...1809 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
• SHOTE (derogatory) a person; a trifling, worthless fellow ...1844 Amer. dial.
• SNIFFLER a trifler, a driveller ...B1900 Sc.
• THRUNK-WIFE a person busy over trifles ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TIDDLYWINKER a cheat; a trifler ...1893 sl.
• TIFFLER † a trifler, one who potters about ...c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• TIFFY-TAFFY a trifler, a dawdler; one who works in an idle, trifling fashion ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• WAFFLES one who hesitates or vacillates; a trifling, undecided person; a loafer, an idle sauntering person ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• WHIFFMAGIG a trifler; an insignificant, contemptible person; a mean, paltry person ...1871
TRIFLING - adjectives
• BAGATELLE † trifling, trumpery ...1637
• BAUBLING † trifling, contemptible, paltry, insignificant ...1601
• BIDDLE-BADDLE trifling, of small account ...1886 Eng. dial.
• BIG AS A BEE'S KNEE of a very small size; trifling, insignificant ...1838
• DESIPIENT * foolish, silly, childish, playful; playing the fool; idly trifling ...1727
• DIDDLIN trifling; seemingly active, yet accomplishing little; untrustworthy ...1888 Sc.
• DINKY trifling, insignificant, unimpressive ...L19 N. Amer. colloq.
• EATHLY † inconsiderable, slight, trifling ...c890
• FADDLING trifling, over-particular, fastidious ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FARTING trifling, contemptible, insubstantial ...1930s sl.
• FEATHER-WEIGHTED trifling, unimportant ...1870
• FINGLE-FANGLE † trifling, of no importance ...a1652
• FLOCCINAUCICAL inconsiderable, inconsequential, trifling ...1826
• FRIBBLE trifling, frivolous, ridiculous, silly ...1798
• FRIBBLING trifling
• FRIBBLISH trifling
• FUTILOUS † futile, worthless, trifling ...1607
• GIGGISH lively, flighty, wanton, trifling, silly, foolish ...1523
• HALLACKING idle, lazy, trifling, loitering ...1878 Eng. dial.
• HALLOCKING idle, lazy, trifling, loitering ...1878 Eng. dial.
• IMMOMENT †* of no moment; unimportant; trifling ...1606
• ITEMING fidgeting, trifling ...1867 Eng. dial.
• ITEMY trifling; tricky, fidgety ...1889 Eng. dial.
• LEGER † light, not heavy; slight, trifling; also, nimble ...1481-90
• LIEGER † light, not heavy; slight, trifling; also, nimble ...1481-90
• MINCING affected; trifling ...1827 Sc.
• NAFFLING trifling; loitering ...Bk1903 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NANNICKING full of apish tricks; trifling ...1815 Eng. dial.
• NATLING trifling, fanciful, ornamental ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NAUGHTY valueless, good-for-nothing, insignificant, trifling; small and contemptible in appearance ...1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NICKY-NACKY trifling, trivial, useless; troublesome; speaking in an affected or mincing manner ...1818 Sc.
• NIDGETTY * trifling ...1798
• NIDGING trifling, insignificant ...B1900
• NIFFNAFFY fastidious; trifling ...1785 sl.
• NIFLING † of small importance or value; trifling; insignificant; worthless ...1649 rare or obs.
• NUGACIOUS * trivial, trifling, futile; of no moment or importance ...1652
• NUGATORIOUS † trifling, of no value or importance, worthless ...1646
• NUGIFRIVOLOUS free for frivolous trifling ...1589
• ODDLING trifling, uncertain, dallying ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OFF-PUTTEN dilatory, delaying, trifling ...1892 Sc.
• OFF-PUTTING dilatory, delaying, trifling ...Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• PADDLING trifling, petty; useless ...Bk1905 Sc.
• PADGELLING trifling, petty ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAFFLING † silly, trifling, idle ...1811 Eng. dial.
• PALTERING † trifling, worthless, despicable, paltry ...1553
• PALTING † petty, trifling, paltry ...1579 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• PERQUISQUILIAN † thoroughly trifling or worthless ...1647 nonce word
• PIDDLING trifling, trivial, insignificant; loafing ...1899 Amer. dial.
• PILULOUS like a pill in size; small, insignificant, minute, trifling ...1872
• PISS-PIDDLING trifling; loafing ...1965 Amer. dial.
• QUEETERING weak, trifling ...1866 Sc.
• QUIDDLING fussing, trifling, mincing ...1841 Amer. dial.
• SILLY † insignificant, trifling ...1567
• SKILLIGALEE worthless, trifling ...1883
• SKILLYGALEE worthless, trifling ...1883
• SKITTERY trifling, of little importance, trivial ...1905
• TIDDLYWINKING trifling, pottering ...1869 sl.
• TOYOUS †* trifling, ornamental, unessential ...1581
• TRIFLOUS †* trifling; insignificant, trivial; frivolous ...1509
• TWIDDLE-TWADDLE idle, trifling ...1798
TRIFLING - nouns (also see TRIFLE)
• BABBY-LAKIN a child's toy; hence, a trifling thing; a triviality ...1891 Eng. dial.
• BAFFLE † a shuffle; quibbling, trifling ...1783
• BAFFLING † quibbling; trifling ...1653
• BAUBLERY † childish foolery; trifling business ...1583
• BODDLE anything of trifling value ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BRANCH WATER something trifling ...c1960 Amer. dial.
• CHICKEN FEED something trifling, of little importance, esp. a small sum of money; small change ...1837 Amer. dial.
• DALLIANCE † waste of time in trifling, idle delay ...1547-64
• DIDDLE 1. a whim, a fad; something trifling ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
2. slow and trifling working; trifling activity; one who is slow and dawdling in his work ...Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DIDDLE-DADDLE slow and trifling working; trifling activity; one who is slow and dawdling in his work ...Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FADDLE nonsense, trifling ...1850 colloq. & Eng. dial.
• FAFFLEMENT trifling and unnecessary work ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FIGGLE-FAGGLE conduct which is foolish, ludicrous, or unbecoming; silly or trifling conduct; ridiculous behaviour ...19C Sc.
• FRIBBLE a trifling thing, a frivolous notion or characteristic ...1831
• ITEMING trifling, nonsense ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• JAMPH trifling over work; an habitual idler ...Bk1902 Sc.
• MAFFLE nonsense, trifling ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MAFFLEMENT nonsense, trifling ...Bk1905 Eng, dial.
• MAG'S TALES † nonsense, trifling ...c1410
• MAG TALES † nonsense, trifling ...c1410
• MONKEY WORK trifling or insignificant work ...1933 Amer. dial.
• NANTLING gossiping or trifling matters ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NEEDLE † an object of trifling importance or value; hence, a particle ...a1225
• NIFF-NAFF a trifling or unimportant thing or matter; something of little value; a knick-knack, a trifle, a bauble; anything very small ...1838 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NINCETY-FINCETY † a trifling matter ...1566 obs.
• NUGILOGUE trifling talk ...1649
• PALTERING equivocation, shuffling, playing fast and loose; trifling with serious matters ...1600
• PICAYUNE a person or thing considered small, mean, or insignificant; something of slight value or trifling importance ...1804 Amer. colloq.
• QUIDDLING the spending of time in trifling employments ...1841 Amer. dial.
• SAUNTERING † dawdling, trifling ...1678
• SMALL BEER trifling matters, small things ...1604
• THINGEMTY-THANGEMTY a useless, trifling article; a knickknack; something the name of which is forgotten or unknown ...1877 Eng. dial.
• THINGUMDAIRIE a knickknack; a useless, trifling article; something the name of which is unknown or forgotten ...Bk1905 Sc..
• THINGUMMAGEE a knickknack; a useless, trifling article; something the name of which is unknown or forgotten ...1889 Eng. dial.
• THINGUMSTICK a knickknack; a useless, trifling article; something the name of which is unknown or forgotten ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• THINGUMTIBOB a knickknack; a useless, trifling article; something the name of which is unknown or forgotten ...1881 Eng. dial.
TRIFLING - verbs
• SERVE SMALL BEER to discuss trifling subjects ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
TRIM - adjectives
• CLASSY stylish, fine, neat, trim ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• DANDY of the nature of a dandy; affectedly neat, trim, or smart ...1813
• DAPPER neat, trim, smart in dress or appearance ...LME
• DINK neat, nice, finely dressed, trim, spruce ...1721 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• DINKY neat, trim ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• FEAT-BODIED † having a feat or trim body, neat, spruce ...1750
• NABBY neat, trim, well-dressed; pretentious, dressed above one's station ...1879 Sc.
• NABITY neat, trim, well-dressed; pretentious, dressed above one's station ...Bk1903 Sc.
• NEAT † 1. of persons: inclined to refinement or elegance; finely or elegantly dressed; trim or smart in apparel ...1546
† 2. of women: trim, smart ...1559
• NET †* of persons: trim, smart, or elegant, esp. in dress ...a1300
• NUNTY precise in dress, neat, trim, dapper ...1856 Eng. dial.
• SPINORTIC neat, trim, stylish ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SPONORTIC neat, trim, stylish ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• TIGHT neat in appearance; neatly and carefully dressed; trim, tidy, smart; of a neat compact build, well-made, shapely ...1697 arch. or Eng. dial.
• TRIG pleasingly trim. tidy, neat ...1838 Amer. dial.
TRIM - nouns, person
• NABITY a well-dressed, trim person ...Bk1903 Sc.
TRIM - verbs
• DANDIFY to give the character or style of a dandy to; to make trim and smart like a dandy...1823 colloq.
• JAG to trim up the small branches of a tree or hedge ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• KEMB † to trim; to make smooth or elegant ...c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• LAY ON † to trim, to embroider ...1563-83
• PAMPINATE † to prune or trim a vine ...1745
• PAMPINE † to prune or trim a vine ...c1420
• SCOW to trim; to cut off rags or tatters ...Bk1904 Sc.
• TAIL † to put into shape, to trim, to make ready ...c1330
TRIMLY - adverbs
• GASH trimly, neatly, so as to have a good appearance ...1806 Sc.
• JEMMILY neatly, trimly ...1837
TRIMMED - adjectives
• ADDRESSED arrayed, attired, trimmed, dressed ...1393 arch.
TRIMMING - nouns
• EAVESING † the act of trimming the edges of anything; clipping, polling, shearing; also, what is cut off; the clippings of hair ...a800
• FABALA † a flounce, trimming, furbelow ...c1800 Sc.
• FAKEMENT a trimming, a superfluous thing ...L19 sl.
• FASHERIE trouble, annoyance; fuss, unnecessary ceremony; any unnecessary ornamentation, trimming, etc. ...1727 Sc.
• FATTERALS † ribbon ends, loose pieces of trimming; anything loose and trailing; rarely in singular ...1786 Sc.
• FATTRALS † ribbon ends, loose pieces of trimming; anything loose and trailing; rarely in singular ...1786 Sc.
• FIXINGS trimmings ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• GARNISH † trimming for articles of dress; some particular material used for this purpose ...1527
• GARNITURE ornament, trimming, etc. added to dress ...1667
• PAMPINATION †* the pruning or trimming of vines ...1398
TRIMNESS - nouns
• FEATNESS elegance, shapeliness, spruceness, trimness ...1576
• JEMMINESS spruceness, neatness, trimness ...1756
TRINIDAD - nouns, person
• FRESH-WATER AMERICAN a person who has never been to the US but speaks with an American accent and embraces other American mannerisms ...1961 Trinidad and Tobago
• FRESH-WATER YANKEE a 'Fresh-Water American' ...1961 Trinidad and Tobago
TRINKET - nouns
• BEAUBELET †* a small toy, trinket, plaything ...c1205
• BIBELOT a small curio or artistic trinket ...L19
• BONNY DIE a trinket, a toy ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BONNY-WALLIES gewgaws, trinkets ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BONNY-WAWLIES gewgaws, trinkets ...Bk1911 Sc.
• FANDANGLES ornaments, trinkets; antics, capers, as in dancing about ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FANDANGS the fanciful adornments in personal attire; trinkets ...1876 Eng. dial.
• FANDANGS AND FEATHERMENTS trinkets, trifles, personal adornments ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• JAPE † a trifle, a toy, a trinket, a plaything ...1436
• JIGGAMBOB a knickknack; a trinket; anything particular, strange or unknown ...1647 sl.
• JIGGUMBOB a knickknack; a trinket; anything particular, strange or unknown ...1640 sl.
• NIGNAY a knickknack, a trinket, a trifle; a trifling, useless thing or proceeding; an unnecessary ornament or frill, a gewgaw ...a1689 Sc.
• TRINKUM-TRANKUMS † trinkets, gewgaws; odd matters of finery, as ribbons, etc. ...1718 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• VARIORUM a piece of decoration, in furniture, etc.; an ornament, gewgaw, trinket; a flourish in handwriting; any unnecessary appendage ...1864 Sc.
• WALLIE an ornament, a trinket, a knickknack, a toy ...1722 Sc.
• WALLY an ornament, a gewgaw, a trinket, a knickknack, a toy ...1772 Sc.
TRIP - nouns
• BROAD a journey, a trip; a visit ...1823 Amer. dial.
• GALLIVANTINGS jaunts, pleasure-trips, holiday-makings ...Bk1900 Ireland
• GANG a journey, a trip on an errand ...c950 obs. exc. Sc.
• JAUL a holiday; a trip taken for pure enjoyment ...1980s S. Afr.
• JAUNT an excursion, trip, or journey, esp. one taken for pleasure ...1678
• JAWL a holiday; a trip taken for pure enjoyment ...1980s S. Afr.
• JOL a holiday; a trip taken for pure enjoyment ...1980s S. Afr.
• JUNKET a trip, ostensibly taken for business or other serious purposes and paid for by an employer, government, etc., which is characterized by the self-indulgent pursuit of pleasure ...1886 sl., orig. US
• PASEAR an excursion; a trip ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• RANDOM SCOOT an outing with no definite destination; a pleasure drive ...1878 Amer. dial.
• RANT a merrymaking or pleasure trip; a rough frolic; a lively story or song; a loud noise ...1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RANTUM SCOOT an outing with no definite destination; a pleasure drive ...1896 Amer. dial.
• RUNAROUND a short trip, an excursion ...1950s orig. US
• SCHLEP(P) a difficult or troublesome trip ...1968 Amer. dial.
• SHLEPP a difficult or troublesome trip ...1968 Amer. dial.
• TOOTLE a casual trip, a drive ...colloq.
• VAIGE a journey, trip, outing, or expedition ...1825 Sc.
• VISTA a short journey, a visit, a trip ...1888 Sc.
• VISTIE a short journey, a visit, a trip ...1888 Sc.
TRIP - verbs
• COME A GUTSER to come undone; to fail miserably; to fall heavily; to trip over and fall ...1918 Aust. sl.
• COME A PEARLER to fall down; to trip over an obstacle, usually sustaining some form of injury ...M19 sl.
• COME A PURLER to fall down; to trip over an obstacle, usually sustaining some form of injury ...M19 sl.
• SKELP to skip, trip, walk, or run rapidly; to hurry ...1721
• TIP to step lightly; to trip; to walk mincingly, or on tiptoe ...1819
• TITUBATE * to stagger, to stumble, to trip, to reel, to totter; to rock, roll ...1575
TRIP (journey) - verbs
• JAUNT to make a short journey, trip, or excursion; to take a jaunt for pleasure ...1647
TRIPE - nouns
• KEGMEG tripe ...M19 sl.
• KEGMEG SHOP a tripe shop ...M19 sl.
TRIPLE - adjectives
• THRIBBLE treble, triple, threefold ...1765 Amer. dial.
• THRIPLE treble, triple, threefold ...1909 Amer. dial.
TRIPLE - verbs
• THREBBLE to treble, to triple ...1935 Amer. dial.
• THRIBBLE to treble, to triple ...1765 Amer. dial.
• TRIBBLE to triple ...1810 Amer. dial.
TRIPLET - nouns, person
• THRIBLET a triplet ...1941 Amer. dial.
• THRIN one of three children born at one birth, a triplet ...1805 Eng & Amer. dial.
TRIPPING - interjections
• OOPSIE DOODLES! exclamation used when making a mistake, tripping, etc.
TRITE - adjectives
• BEATEN † well-worn, trite ...a1543
• HACK in common or promiscuous use; hackneyed; trite, commonplace ...1781
• HACKNEY † worn out, like a hired horse, by indiscriminate or vulgar use; threadbare, trite, commonplace; hackneyed ...1596
• OLD FIDDLE 'old hat; trite or outdated ...1979 US sl.
• OLD HAT trite; outdated, old-fashioned ...1911
• TRITICAL trite and critical ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
TRITE - nouns
• BROMIDE a commonplace saying, a trite remark, conventionalism ...1909 sl., orig. US
TRITE - verbs
• HACKNEY to render too familiar, vulgar, trite, or commonplace ...1596
TRIUMPH - verbs
• BAT to triumph, to exult ...1867 Eng. dial.
TRIUMPH - interjections
• GAME ON! an exclamation of triumph at having sorted out initial arrangements ...1980s sl.
• TISTY-TOSTY! † an exclamation of triumph or exultation ...1568
TRIUMPHANT - adjectives
• ACOCK elated, triumphant ...1611 Eng. dial.
• A-COCK-HORSE triumphant ...1611 Eng. dial.
• PALMY bearing or worthy to 'bear the palm', triumphant, flourishing, prosperous ...1602
• TRIPUDIANT dancing for joy, exultant, triumphant ...a1626
TRIUMPHANT - adverbs
• A-COCK-HORSE in an exalted position; in a place of triumph ...M17 obs.
TRIVIAL - adjectives
• AIRY-FAIRY insubstantial, trivial, of minimal importance ...1920s sl.
• BALD bare or destitute of meaning or force; lacking in vividness of description; meagre, trivial, paltry ...1362
• CROW poor; mean; trivial; insignificant; worthless ...Bk1914 criminals' sl.
• CROW-BAIT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DASHY-TRASHY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DRIBBLE insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• FARTING trivial, irrelevant ...1930s sl.
• FIDDLE-FADDLE insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• FIDFAD insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HALF-ASSED worthless; stupid; ill-planned; trivial ...M20 US sl.
• HEAN † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial ...c825
• HENE † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial ...c825
• IMPORTLESS †* without import or significance; trivial, unimportant; meaningless ...1606
• JUNKY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• MEASLY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• MICKEY MOUSE applied to something small and ineffectual; trivial, time-wasting ...1951
• MOULDY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NICKY-NACKY trifling, trivial, useless; troublesome; speaking in an affected or mincing manner ...1818 Sc.
• NO-COUNT worthless, lazy, shiftless; useless, good-for-nothing; insignificant, trivial ...1853 Amer. dial.
• NO GREAT CATCH insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO GREAT SCRATCH insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO GREAT SHAKES insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO-ACCOUNT trivial; worthless ...19C Amer. sl.
• NO-'COUNT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO-GOOD insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO ODDS insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT FIT TO KILL insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOTHING IN IT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOTHING TO IT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH A CONTINENTAL insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH A DAMN insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH A DIME A DOZEN insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH A HOOT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH SHUCKS insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH THE POWDER AND SHOT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH THE POWDER TO BLOW IT UP insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH TWO HOOTS IN HELL insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NUGACIOUS * trivial, trifling, futile; of no moment or importance ...1652
• PEANUT small, trivial ...1934 Amer. sl.
• PIDDLING trifling, trivial, insignificant; loafing ...1899 Amer. dial.
• PIFFLING trivial; worthless ...M19 colloq.
• PUERILE childishly foolish; immature or trivial ...17C
• QUOTIDIAN of an everyday character; ordinary, commonplace, trivial ...1461-83
• RINKY-DINK trivial ...1960s Amer. sl.
• SAPLESS of little importance; trivial ...1602
• SHAG insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SINGLE † slight, poor, trivial ...c1449
• SKITTERY trifling, of little importance, trivial ...1905
• SMALL-BEER insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SMALL-CHANGE insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SMALL-POTATO insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SMALL-TIME insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SMALL-TOWN insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• TEN-TWENTY-THIRTY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• TINHORN trivial; worthless ...1880 sl.
• TIN-POT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...1765
• TRIFLOUS †* trifling; insignificant, trivial; frivolous ...1509
• VAIN * trivial, unimportant ...1731
TRIVIAL, TRIVIALITY - nouns
ׇ• BABBY-LAKIN a child's toy; hence, a trifling thing; a triviality ...1891 Eng. dial.
• BOONDOGGLE a trivial, useless, or unnecessary undertaking ...M20 N. Amer. sl.
• CHOPPED LIVER something trivial; something to be scoffed at; usually used in the negative ...1954 Amer. sl.
• DIDDLY-SHIT something very trivial ...M20 US sl.
• FLUMMADIDDLE silly or delusive nonsense; something trivial or ridiculous; balderdash ...1848 Amer.
• IMPERTINENCES something unsuitable, out of place, trivial, or irrational; an incongruity; a trifle, absurdity, piece of folly ...1603
• ITERIDAN a trivial occasion ...1895 Eng. dial.
• JIGAMAREE nonsense or any triviality ...Bk1896 Amer. sl.
• MICKEY MOUSE nonsense; something trivial
• PIGS AND WHISTLES fragments; odds and ends; pieces; knickknacks; trivial things ...1681
• PIMPLE IN A BENT, A † something very minute, small, or trivial ...1807
• PUERILITY the state or quality of being a child; the quality of being childish, foolish, or trivial ...1425
• SCIMPTION a trivial matter; a very small piece, amount, or quantity; a bit, a scrap ...1919 Amer. dial.
• SKIMPTION a trivial matter; a very small piece, amount, or quantity; a bit, a scrap ...1942 Amer. dial.
• STRAW a trifle, a trivial matter ...L17
TRIVIAL - nouns, person
• PEANUT a small or trivial person; something or somebody insignificant ...1914 Amer. sl.
TRIVIAL - verbs
• BOONDOGGLE to engage in a trivial, useless, or unnecessary undertaking ...M20 N. Amer. sl.
• PICK A SALAD † to be engaged in some trivial occupation ...1520
• FAND † 1. the act of trying; trial, proof, experience ...c1250
† 2. the state of being tried; a trial, a temptation ...a1300
• FANDING † a testing or putting to the proof; a trial ...a1300
• FOND † 1. the act of trying; trial, proof, experience ...c1250
† 2. the state of being tried; a trial, a temptation ...a1300
• FONDING † a testing or putting to the proof; a trial ...a1300
• HANDSEL the first use, experience, trial, proof, or specimen of anything; first taste, foretaste, first fruits; often with the notion of its being auspicious of what is to follow ...1573
• HANSEL the first use, experience, trial, proof, or specimen of anything; first taste, foretaste, first fruits; often with the notion of its being auspicious of what is to follow ...1573
• SAY an assay, an attempt; a trial piece of work ...1723 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• SAY-HAND an assay, a trial ...1709 Sc.
• SAY-PIECE † a trial piece of work; a first attempt at anything ...1773 Sc.
• TEMPTATION a trial ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TIRL a round or turn at doing anything; a slight experience or trial of something, a touch, a taste ...c1660 chiefly Sc.
TRIAL (court) - nouns
• CALENDAR a case awaiting trial ...1940s sl.
• DAY OF LAW, THE † the day of trial ...1565
• WAIL a legal trial ...1930s US criminals' sl.
TRIAL - verbs
• FAND † to put to the proof, to try, to test a person or thing; to make trial of one's strength or skill; to taste food, etc. ...c893
• FOND † to put to the proof, to try, to test a person or thing; to make trial of one's strength or skill; to taste food, etc. ...c893
• SCANCE to make trial of; to put to the test ...1804 Sc.
TRIAL (court) - verbs
• FULLY to commit someone for trial ...1849 sl.
TRIAL (court) - phrases
• HE'S STANDING ON THE TOP STEP of a man standing trial: there is every prospect he will be given the maxim sentence ...1950 cant
TRIANGLE - nouns
• SHANK † either of the sides of a triangle ...L16
• THREE-SQUARE a triangle ...1839 Eng. dial.
TRIANGLE (music) - nouns
• TING-A-LING in music: a triangle ...1941 Amer. dial.
TRIANGULAR - adjectives
• CATTY-CORNER triangular ...1969 Amer. dial.
• CATTY-CORNERED triangular ...1954 Amer. dial.
• THREE-BOB-SQUARE triangular ...1876 Eng. dial.
• THREE-NOOKED triangular ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• THREE-SQUARE triangular ...1896 Eng. dial.
TRIBULATION - nouns
• DERF † trouble, adversity, tribulation, hurt, suffering ...c1205
TRIBUTE - nouns
• FEE † a tribute or offering to a superior ...c1369
TRICK - adjectives (also see TRICKY)
• ANTIC clownish, amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful ...1902 Amer. dial.
• ANTIC AS A JAYBIRD clownish, amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful ...1917 Amer. dial.
• GAMMOCKY wild, full of tricks ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GYROTWISTIVE full of tricks and evasions ...1869 Amer. sl.
• MAGGOTTY frisky, playful, full of tricks, frolicsome ...1820 Eng. dial.
• NANNICKING full of apish tricks; trifling ...1815 Eng. dial.
• PRESTIGIATORY † practising 'prestigiation'; juggling, conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive ...1588
TRICK, TRICKERY, TRICKING - nouns
• AFFECT an affectation, a trick ...1588
• ANDRAMARTIN a silly trick; nonsense ...1894 Ireland
• ANKY-PRANKY trickery, underhand dealing, shuffling ...1886 Eng. dial.
• BACKSPANG an underhand trick, esp. a retreat from a bargain ...1892 Sc. & N. Ireland
• BAM a story intended to impose upon the credulous; a hoax or imposition; a trick, a joke ...1762 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BEGECK † a cheating disappointment; a trick ...c1600 obs. exc. Sc.
• BEGINK a befooling or deluding trick; a piece of deception ...1725 Sc.
• BEGONK a trick, a disappointment, misfortune ...1725 Eng. dial.
• BEGOWK a trick; jilting ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BEGUILE a deception, a trick; disappointment ...1637 Sc.
• BEGUNK a befooling or deluding trick; a piece of deception; a disappointment, misfortune ...1725 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BOO-BOO a prank, a trick ...E20 sl., orig. US
• BUG a trick or hoax ...1848 Amer. dial.
• CALEUP a frolic, a merry trick ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CANTILENE † an old song; silly prattle; idle tale, trick ...1535
• CANTRAP a mischievous trick; a magic spell ...1830 Amer. dial.
• CANTRIP a spell or charm of necromancy or witchcraft; a witch's trick or mischievous device; also jocosely, any playfully mischievous trick; any whimsically mad, eccentric, or extravagant piece of conduct ...1719
• CAPRICCIO a sudden sportive or fantastic motion; a prank, trick, caper ...1665
• CAST † a contrivance, device, artifice, trick ...c1340
• CATCH † a trick ...c1430
• CONY-CATCHING trickery; cheating; swindling ...L16 cant
• CUNNY-CATCHING trickery, cheating, swindling ...L16 sl.
• DAP a trick, ruse, artifice ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DEVILMENT mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery ...1844 Amer. dial.
• DEVILTRY mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery, wickedness, devilry ...1839 Sc. & Amer. dial.
• DIDOES tricks, antics, eccentric feats ...1835 Eng. dial.
• DINGDO a caper, a prank, a trick ...1900 Amer. dial.
• DODGERY the use of deception or trickery
• FADGE a trick ...M19 UK criminals' sl.
• FALLACE † deception, trickery, falsehood; deceitfulness ...a1300
• FALLAX † deception; guile, trickery; fallacy ...1530
• FALLAXITY † deception, guile, trickery; fallacy ...c1640
• FALSE POINT † a stroke of deceit; a trick ...a1529
• FAST ONE a trick intended to deceive or defraud; any scheme seen as immoral, corrupt, or underhand ...1923 US sl.
• FLANKER a trick or swindle, a hoax ...1923 Brit. sl., orig. services' usage
• FLY a trick, a 'dodge' ...c1860 sl.
• GADGE a trick ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAFF a gimmick, a hidden trick ...1960s sl.
• GALLIARDISE gaiety, mirth, revelry; also, a merry trick ...c1570 arch.
• GAME a trick, dodge; generally in plural ...1839 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• GAME, THE deception, trickery ...1950s US Black sl.
• GAMMET fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick ...1865 Eng. dial.
• GAMMETTING frolicking, whims, tricks, pranks ...1873 Eng. dial.
• GAMMOCK a joke, a trick, a prank; rough play ...1819 Eng. dial.
• GAMMON a joke, trick; play, sport, merriment ...1869 Eng. dial.
• GAMUT fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick ...1865 Eng. dial.
• GANSPEL a trick, caper ...1929 Sc.
• GAUD † a trick, a prank; often, a device to deceive, a piece of trickery, a pretense; also, a game, sport, or pastime ...a1300
• GAUDERY † trickery ...a1529
• GAWD † a trick, a prank; often, a device to deceive, a piece of trickery, a pretense; also, a game, sport, or pastime ...a1300
• GAWDRY † trickery ...a1529
• GEGG a trick, a hoax, a practical joke ...1855 Sc.
• GUY a trick or hoax; a prank, a jest, a joke ...1854 Amer. sl.
• GYP a trick or swindle ...1914 sl., orig. US
• HAMGAMS antics, tricks ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• HAMLIN a wile, a trick ...Bk1905 Sc.
• HANKY-PANKY jugglery, legerdemain; trickery, double dealing, underhand dealing; dishonest or corrupt activity; deceit ...1841 sl.
• HANKY-PANKYING humbugging, cheating, tricking ...1868 Eng. dial.
• HAWKERY-PAWKERY deceit, unfairness, trickery, hocus-pocus ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HENKY-PENKY trickery, underhand dealing, shuffling ...1886 Eng. dial.
• HICCIUS DOCIUS * a formula used by a juggler when performing a trick; a feat of dexterity; a clever trick ...L17
• HOCUS-POCUS a juggler's trick; thus any form of imposture, trickery ...E18 sl.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY deceit, trickery, imposture ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HOOKER a trick or concealed drawback; a catch ...1966 Amer. sl.
• HYPE originally applied specifically to the deliberate giving of short change, and hence to any cheating or trickery ...1926 sl., orig. US
• ILL-PRAT a mischievous trick ...Bk1905 Sc.
• ILL TRICK a mischievous trick ...1899 Sc.
• IRISH TRICK a dirty trick ...1966 Amer. dial.
• ITEM an intention, purpose; a crafty design; a trick; a fancy, a fad ...1887 Eng. dial.
• JAPE † a trick, a device to deceive or cheat ...a1300
• JAPERY † trickery, deception ...1496
• JEOPARDY † a device, trick, stratagem ...1375
• KANCUMS tricks, pranks ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• KEDIDOES capers, pranks, tricks ...1914 Amer. dial.
• KINK a development or aspect, esp. if surprising, clever, or tricky; a wrinkle; also, a tricky way of doing something ...1825 Amer. sl.
• LAIGZ a trick ...1940s W. Indies sl.
• LAITS tricks, pranks ...1805 Sc.
• LAKES † games, tricks, goings on ...c1200
• LARK a frolicsome adventure; a spree; a piece of merriment or mischief; fun of any kind; a trick ...1802 colloq.
• LEGERDEMAIN 1. trickery, deception, hocus-pocus ...1532
† 2. a trick, a juggle ...1550
• LIRIPOOP † a shrewd trick or stratagem ...1605
• MAGGOTS tricks; nonsense ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MAGOO, THE a lie, a trick, a hoax ...1930s US sl.
• MANAGEMENT a piece of trickery ...1736
• MANK a prank, a trick; a practical joke ...1878 Eng. dial.
• MARLOCK a prank, frolic, a gambol, a lark; a playful trick, a practical joke; a piece of fun or mischief ...1864 Eng. dial.
• MAWK a whim, a foolish fancy; a joke; a trick ...1790 Eng. dial.
• MAXIMS pranks, tricks, practical jokes ...1867 Eng. dial.
• MAY-GAMES tricks, frolics, antics, practical jokes; whims, fancies ...1825 Eng. dial.
• MAYLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke; a noisy disturbance, an uproar, a row ...1864 Eng. dial.
• MEGRIMS antics, tricks; gesticulations; grimaces ...1890 Eng. dial.
• MEG'S DIVERSIONS tricks, frolics, rattling fun ...1873 Eng. dial.
• MONKEY BUSINESS foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour ...1883 Amer. sl.
• MONKEY CAPERS monkey business ...1846 Amer. sl.
• MONKEY PLAY foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour ...1953 Amer. sl.
• MONKEY SHINE tricks or antics ...E19 US sl.
• MONKEY SHINES tricks or antics ...E19 US sl.
• MONKEY WORK trickery, mischief ...L19 sl.
• MORLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke; a noisy disturbance, an uproar, a row ...1864 Eng. dial.
• NAAM a trick, a sign of an evil or mischievous disposition ...1911 Sc.
• OKEY-DOKE a swindle, trick or deception; a confidence trick ...1967 sl., esp. Black usage
• OLD ARMY GAME, THE any form of trickery, deception, or evasion ...1910 Amer. sl.
• OLD MOODY a cunning trick, a fraud ...1930s sl.
• PAGEANT † a part acted to deceive or impose upon anyone; a trick ...c1380
• PENNY-COME-QUICK a trick ...Bk1903 rhyming sl.
• PHONY JAZZ a lie; a trick; deliberate misinformation ...1950s US Black sl.
• PLISKY a mischievous escapade; a trick, a prank; a practical joke; a frolic ...1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• PULL an illicit trick or manipulation ...1861 card-sharpers' usage
• QUAFT a trick ...1881 Eng. dial.
• QUAINTISE † a device, a stratagem, a trick; an instance of cleverness, cunning, or craft ...1297
• QUEEF a stratagem, a dodge, a trick; a conjuring trick, a piece of sleight of hand; cunning ...1923 Sc.
• QUEER FUN a cheat or trick that does not work out as intended ...L7 UK criminals' sl.
• QUIBLIN † a pun or quibble; a trick ...1605
• QUICKIE an unexpected, quickly executed manoeuvre or piece of trickery ...1950 US sl.
• QUIFF a dodge, a trick; a knack; a verbal catch ...1881 Eng. dial.
• QUIPS AND QUIRKS tricks, sharp practices ...1871 Eng. dial.
• QUIRK a dodge, a trick; a quibble, catch; a question asked in order to elicit information ...1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RACKET a swindle or a means of deception; criminal trickery; hoaxing; a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action ...1812 sl.
• RANNYGAZOO a deceptive story or scheme; a caper; a prank; a trick; horseplay; nonsense; irrelevant, irritating activity ...L19 Amer. sl.
• REAK † a trick, a prank; a stratagem, an artifice ...1629 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RIG a joke, a prank, a trick, a frolic ...1858 Amer. dial.
• RORT a dodge, a trick, a scheme, a racket; a fraudulent or dishonest practice ...c1910 Aust. sl.
• SAMFIEISM deceit, trickery ...20C W. Indies sl.
• SANDY a bluff, a deception, a trick, a joke ...1916 Amer. dial.
• SCHLEINTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SCHLENTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SCONCE a pretext; an apology, an excuse; a trick; deception ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SCREW a dishonest trick; an imposture; a cheat ...Bk1904 Eng. dial.
• SHENANIGAN a mischievous or deceitful trick ...19C Amer. colloq.
• SHENANIGANS deceit, trickery ...19C Amer. colloq.
• SHINE a caper, a prank, a trick ...1836 Amer. dial.
• SHLANTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SHLINTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SINONISM a trick, deception; a treacherous act ...1864
• SKIFT † an artifice, device, or trick ...c1460
• SKIT a trick; a hoax; a practical joke ...1815 chiefly Eng. dial.
• SKITE a trick; a hoax; a practical joke ...1804 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• SLANTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SLINTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem ...1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
• SPOOFERY trickery, hoaxing ...L19 sl.
• STROKE an underhanded trick ...1970 Brit. sl.
• SUBTLETY † a wily stratagem or trick, something craftily invented; a crafty or cunning device, an artifice ...1375
• SUCK a cheat; a trick ...Bk1904 sl.
• SUCK-IN a deception; a disappointing event or result; cheat, a trick ...1856 sl.
• SWIFTIE a deceptive trick ...1945 Aust. sl.
• SWIFTY. a deceptive trick ...1945 Aust. sl.
• TRICKERATION a trick or stratagem ...1940 US Black sl.
• VAGES † pranks or tricks ...1523
• VAGUES † pranks or tricks ...1523
• WAGS tricks, mischievous behaviour ...1835 Sc.
TRICK, TRICKSTER - nouns, person
• ANOINTER a trickster, a sharp, crafty person ...1885 Eng. dial.
• BAFFLER † a juggler, a trickster; a trifler ...1606
• CONY-CATCHER a deceiver; a trickster; a sharper ...c1590 cant
• IKEY one who plays a duplicitous, 'sharp' trick ...L19 sl.
• JAPER † a trickster, a deceiver, a seducer, an impostor ...1362
• JIGGER a shifty fellow; a trickster ...1675 sl.
• KAN-KAYERS tricksters; confederates who unite to disparage anything they wish to buy, or make fictitious offers and praise anything they wish to sell ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• MANNICK one who plays tricks ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NINETER a trickster, a sharp, crafty person ...1885 Eng. dial.
• NOINTER a trickster, a sharp, crafty person ...1885 Eng. dial.
• RAG OUT a person who plays tricks; something unpleasant ...1970s US campus sl.
• RAJ a villain, a trickster ...1940s W. Indies sl.
• SHARPER a person who habitually cheats, swindles, or tricks another; often applied to a fraudulent card player or other gambler ...1681 colloq.
• SHARPSTER a person who habitually cheats, swindles, or tricks another, esp. in card games ...1942 colloq., chiefly US
TRICK - verbs
• ANKY-PRANKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• BABOONIZE IT † to play the ape; to use apish or foolish tricks or knavish pranks ...1611
• BAM to hoax, to practice on the credulity of; to deceive, to delude, to impose upon, to play a joke or trick on a person...1738 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• BAMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to confuse ...1842 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• BANTER to impose upon a person, orig, in jest; to delude, to cheat, to trick, to bamboozle ...a1688 arch.
• BEAT to cheat; to swindle; to bilk; to trick ...1849 Amer. sl.
• BEGOUK to trick, to befool; to jilt ...1862 Sc.
• BEGOWK to trick, to befool; to jilt ...1862 Sc.
• BEGUILE † to cheat hopes, expectations, aims, or a person in them; to trick; to disappoint, to deprive of, to foil ...1483 obs. exc. Sc.
• BEGUNK to delude, to play a deceiving trick on, to 'take in'; to cheat, do deceive; to jilt...1821 Sc.
• BEJAPE † to play a trick on; to trick or befool ...1377
• BE ON THE MARLOCK to play tricks ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• BUMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex ...1880 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• CALDEE(S) to trick; to swindle ...M17 sl.
• CEDAR BIRD to deceive or trick; to make a patsy or fall guy of someone ...1984 Amer. dial.
• CHAFF to talk nonsense, to joke; to banter, to tease, to make fun of; to trick, to deceive ...1872 Amer. dial.
• CHALDEE to trick; to swindle ...M17 sl.
• CHUMP to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone ...1920s sl.
• CHUMP OUT to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone ...1920s sl.
• COME IT OVER SOMEONE to try to get the better of someone by trickery ...1827 sl.
• COME IT WITH SOMEONE to try to get the better of someone by trickery ...1827 sl.
• CONY-CATCH to cheat, to trick, to deceive ...L16 cant
• CUT SHINES to behave in a comic, boisterous, or unruly manner; to play tricks on someone; to make a conspicuous display of oneself ...1848 Amer. dial.
• CUT UP MONKEY-SHINES to play tricks ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• CUT UP SHINES to play tricks ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• DAUB to cheat, to deceive, to trick ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DEAL ON to trick, to deceive, to take advantage ...1970s US Black sl.
• DO A FLANKER to trick, to swindle ...1920s sl.
• EMPTY to trick, to swindle ...L19 UK criminals' sl.
• EUCHRE to defeat; to outwit; to swindle; to cheat, to trick ...1853 Amer. dial.
• EUCHRE OUT to defeat; to outwit; to cheat, to trick ...1853 Amer. dial.
• FINAGLE to wangle, to manoeuvre, to obtain by devious means; to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion ...1922 Amer. dial.
• FAKE to trick, to fool; to cheat; to swindle; to deceive ...1859 sl.
• FINAGLE to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion; to wangle ...1927 US sl.
• FLANK to trick out of ...M19 US sl., orig. military
• FLUMMOX to fool, to confuse, to overcome by trickery ...19C sl.
• FLUMMUX to fool, to confuse, to overcome by trickery ...19C sl.
• FOB OFF 1. to appease or trick a person with lies or excuses
2. to dispose of goods by trickery
• GAMBLE to deceive, to play a trick upon; to 'gammon' ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• GAME to deceive, to mislead, to trick ...1963 US sl.
• GEGG to hoax, to play a trick on ...1826 Sc.
• GIVE A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• GIVE ONE THE GECK to mock, to trick, to deceive one ...1583
• GO ON THE ABRAHAM SUIT to resort to trick or artifice ...Bk1909 cant
• GUY to hoax, to trick, to put on ...1890 Amer. sl.
• HANKY-PANKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HENKY-PENKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• HORSE to trick or deceive; to swindle; also, to hoax, to bluff, to flatter, to lie to ...1891 US sl.
• ILLUDE * to trick, to impose upon, to deceive with false hopes ...1447
• JABEZ to play a dirty trick ...1923 sl.
• JAG to annoy, to irritate, to play tricks on; to disparage; to reject ...1968 Amer. dial.
• JAG AROUND to habitually play tricks or jokes on people ...1968 Amer. dial.
• JAG OFF to annoy, to irritate, to play tricks on; to disparage; to reject ...1968 Amer. dial.
• JAPE † to trick, to beguile, to befool, to deceive ...1362
• JOLLY to tease roughly, to chaff, to abuse, to trick ...M19 sl., ?orig. US
• KIMBAW to trick, cheat, or cozen ...1865 sl.
• LARK to play tricks, to frolic ...1813 colloq.
• LEAD DOWN THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease ...1920s sl.
• LEAD UP THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease ...1920s sl.
• LEGERDEMAIN † to perform tricks, to use deceit ...1483
• LOAD to deceive, to trick, to mislead ...1906 Amer. dial.
• LOAD UP to deceive, to trick, to mislead ...1883 Amer. dial.
• MAKE A MAY-GAME OF to play games with; to trick or deceive ...L17 sl.
• MANK to prank, to romp; to play tricks; to pretend to work, to gossip ...1864 Eng. dial.
• MANNICK to play tricks ...1863 Eng. dial.
• MONKEY-SHINE to misbehave; to play tricks ...20C US sl.
• NAB to cheat, to trick; to cheat with dice ...L17 sl.
• OOTCH to cheat or trick ...1940s US sl.
• OOTZ to cheat or trick ...1940s US sl.
• PALM † to play a trick, to cheat; to impose upon a person ...1686
• PALTER to shift, to shuffle, to equivocate, to prevaricate in statement or dealing; to deal crookedly or evasively; to play fast and loose, to use trickery ...1601
• PLAY A PERSON A REEL to play him a trick, to give him a scare ...1884 N. Ireland
• PLAY CAPS AND BELLS to act like a prankster; to play tricks or jokes on people ...1969 Amer. dial.
• PLAY ONE A PAGEANT † to play him a trick; to impose upon or deceive him ...1530
• PLAY THE JACK † to play the rogue or knave; to do a mean trick ...1609
• PLAY THE NANNY-GOAT to behave like a fool; to play foolish tricks ...1900 Eng. dial.
• PLAY THE WAG to be mischievous; to play tricks ...c1585
• PUGGY to play tricks on, to befool ...1891 Sc.
• PULL A FAST ONE to do something daring (often a criminal act) and hope to get away with it by being smarter, faster, and more deceitful than those set to prevent you; to play a dirty trick ...1943 UK sl., orig. military
• PULL A FLANKER to trick, to swindle ...1920s sl.
• PULL A STROKE to do something daring (often a criminal act) and get away with it by being smarter, faster, and more deceitful than those set to prevent you; to play a dirty trick ...1970 UK sl.
• PULL A SWIFTIE to execute or attempt a deception; to achieve a clever fraud or swindle; to play a deceptive trick ...1945 Aust. sl.
• PUT THE BUG ON to trick or hoax; to get an advantage over somebody by tricky means ...1848 Amer. dial.
• PUT THE FUN UPON to trick; to cheat ...L17 sl.
• QUAFT to trick, to deceive ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• QUEER A FLAT to hoodwink a gullible victim; to deceive or trick ...L18 sl.
• QUIFF to come up with a cunning dodge or trick; to go or do well, to get along pleasantly ...L19 sl.
• QUIRK to cheat, to overreach; to elude by stratagem; to play a trick or prank ...1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RACKETEER to practise any form of criminal deception, trickery, extortion, etc. ...1920s sl.
• RAMP to tease, to banter, to trick ...1980s UK Black sl.
• RIG to trick; to steal ...Bk1903 sl.
• RUN A DRAG ON to deceive, to trick, to hoax ...1980s US Black sl.
• RUN A GAME ON to bamboozle, to deceive, to seduce, to confuse, to obtain money by trickery ...1960s US Black sl.
• RUN A HOOLIGAN ON to play tricks on, to defraud ...1920s US sl.
• RUN A SANDY to bluff; to play a trick on someone ...1897 Amer. dial.
• RUN A SANDY ON to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude ...1914 Amer. dial.
• RUN A SANDY OVER to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude ...1923 Amer. dial.
• SCAM to defraud, to trick ...1950s sl.
• SCAM OUT to defraud, to trick ...1950s sl.
• SCAMP to play mischievous tricks ...Bk1904 Sc.
• SCONCE to extort, to cheat; to trick out of ...1796 Sc.
• SELL to deceive, to cheat, to trick ...1849 sl.
• SELL OUT to deceive, to cheat, to trick ...1884 Amer. dial.
• SHAFT to cheat; to trick; to deceive; to abuse ...1970s US Black sl.
• SHARP to cheat, swindle or trick a person, esp. at cards ...L17 colloq.
• SHUCK to cheat, to deceive, to trick, to mislead someone ...1959 Amer. dial.
• SLUR † to cheat or trick a person ...M17
• SNOOKER to trick, to cheat; to swindle ...1900s sl.
• SPOOF to hoax, to fool, to trick ...L19 sl.
• STRING ALONG to deceive, cheat, trick ...colloq.
• TAKE FOR A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• TAKE FOR A TROT to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain ...1920s sl.
• TAKE IN to deceive, to cheat, to trick, to impose upon, to hoax ...1740 colloq.
• WOOL to strip of possessions, esp. by trickery; to outdo by trickery ...1841 Amer. dial.
• WORK A FLANKER to trick, to swindle ...1920s sl.
• YANK to cheat; to trick ...US Civil War usage
TRICKED - adjectives
• HAD tricked, hoaxed, deceived ...L18 sl.
• MADE cheated, tricked ...1950s US sl.
TRICKED - nouns, person
• ICE-CREAM someone who can be easily tricked ...1980s rhyming sl. for 'geezer' (Ice-cream Freezer)
• ICE-CREAM FREEZER someone who can be easily tricked ...1980s rhyming sl. for 'geezer'
• PIGEON a person easily swindled or tricked, esp. in gaming ...L16 sl.
• TOOL a dupe; someone easily tricked ...M17 sl.
TRICKED - verbs
• GET A GECK to be deceived or tricked ...1568
TRICKED - phrases
• I CAUGHT THAT ILL VIBE I was tricked ...1990s US Black teen sl.
TRICKERY - adjectives
• GAUDY † full of trickery ...a1529
• GAWDY † full of trickery ...a1529
• UNMONKEYABLE of a person: impervious to trickery ...1910s sl.
TRICKILY - adverbs
• PALTERLY †* shiftily, trickily ...1598
TRICKINESS - nouns
• RAKE any form of trickiness, such as a duplicitous answer that hides the true situation ...1950s W. Indies sl.
TRICKING - adjectives
• KIDLING tricking, cozening ...B1900 Eng. dial.
TRICKLE - nouns
• TRINKLE a trickle ...1891 Amer. dial.
TRICKLE - verbs
• DILDER to dribble, to ooze, to trickle, to glide ...Bk1900 Sc.
• HAPPLE to trickle, to roll down, as tears ...1791 Sc.
• SIPE to drip or trickle slowly ...c1000 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• TRINKLE to trickle ...1835 Amer. dial.
TRICKY - adjectives
• CADDLING of persons: tricky, pettifogging, shuffling ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• CAGERY tricky ...1883 Eng. dial.
• FASHIOUS of a task: tricky, ticklish ...1731 Sc.
• FASHOUS troublesome, annoying, irksome; of a task: tricky, ticklish ...1731 Sc.
• GAFTY sly, tricky, cunning, not to be trusted; mischievous, vicious ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• HOOKEM-SNIVEY deceitful, tricky, sly ...1892 Eng. dial.
• ILL-CONTRIVED ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous ...1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ILL-CONTRIVING ill-tempered, badly behaved, tricky, mischievous ...1880 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• ITEMY trifling; tricky, fidgety ...1889 Eng. dial.
• JADISH malicious; tricky; untrustworthy ...Bk1896 sl.
• LEGERDEMAIN pert. to legerdemain or jugglery; juggling; tricky ...1576
• NASTIFIED dishonourable, tricky, ungentlemanly ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PLISKY given to playing tricks; tricky, mischievous, frolicsome ...1887 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• QUIRKIE cunning, wily, resourceful, tricky ...1806 Sc.
• QUIRKSOME * quirky; full of quirks or shifts; tricky ...1896
• QUIRKY cunning, wily, resourceful, tricky ...1806 Sc.
• SCALY miserly, stingy, mean; thievish, dishonest, tricky ...1851 Eng. dial.
• SCHEMY scheming; devious, tricky, sly ...1888 Amer. dial.
• SKITTISH fickle, inconstant, changeable; tricky, difficult to deal with or manage ...1601
• TACKY tricky, hard to beat, cunning ...1950s W. Indies sl.
• WAFF troublesome, unchancy, tricky ...1865 Sc.
TRICKY - nouns, person
• CHAPARRAL FOX a sneak, or a sly, tricky person ...1932 Amer. dial.
• LAD a mischievous, tricky fellow ...19C Anglo-Irish
• NACKET a pert, tricky, or precocious child; an imp ...1887 Sc.
TRICYCLE - nouns
• DANDY-HORSE a tricycle or bicycle ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FLY-AWAY a tricycle ...1887 sl.
• IRON-HORSE a tricycle or bicycle ...1875 sl.
• RANTOONE † a form of tricycle formerly in use; it had a small wheel in front, and two larger wheels behind, and was guided by means of the front wheel ...1869
TRIDENT - nouns
• MACE † the trident of Neptune ...1582
TRIED - adjectives
• YFONDED † attempted, tried, tested, tempted ...c1175
TRIFLE - nouns (also see TRIFLING)
• ALMOND FOR A PARROT a trifle for a small mind ...18C Eng.
• BABLE a trifle; a trifling thing or person ...1570 Sc.
• BAFFIN a trifle, a thing of no value ...1866 Sc.
• BAFFLE a trifle; a thing of no value ...Bk1898 Eng. dial.
• BAGATELLE a trifle; a thing of no importance; a matter of little worth ...c1645
• BAGGAGE † a trifle, a trashy article ...1579
• BARLEY-STRAW a trifle ...a1721
• BAUBEE a trifle, anything of little value ...1906 Amer. dial.
• BAWBEE a trifle; anything of little value ...1953 Amer. dial.
• BOBEE a trifle, anything of little value ...1866 Amer. dial.
• BRIMBORION a thing without value or use; anything worthless; a trifling object kept as a charm or gewgaw, a trifle; trash, nonsense ...1653
• BULL-SQUITTER much fuss or talk about a trifle ...19C Eng. dial.
• CANDLE-ENDS things of short duration or of little value; trifles, fragments, scraps ...a1626
• FADDLEMENTS trifles, novelties ...1891 Eng. dial.
• FADOODLE †* something foolish or ridiculous; nonsense; a mere nothing; a useless trifle ...a1670
• FALDERAL a gewgaw, a trifle; a flimsy thing ...c1820
• FALDERDAL a gewgaw, a trifle, a useless ornament; finery ...1828 Eng. dial.
• FAL DE ROL a gewgaw, a trifle; a flimsy thing ...c1820
• FALLALS finery, trumpery ornaments, trifles, gewgaws ...1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FANDANGS AND FEATHERMENTS trinkets, trifles, personal adornments ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FEATHER anything of little strength or importance; a very small amount, a trifle ...1601
• FEGARY * a gewgaw; a trifle; finery in dress ...E18 Eng. dial. & colloq.
• FEWTRILS little unimportant things, trifles ...c1750 Eng. dial.
• FINGLE-FANGLE † a trifle; a thing of no importance; something whimsical or fantastic ...1678
• FIP the slightest thing; a trifle ...1897 Amer. dial.
• FLAMFEW a gaudy ornament; a dazzling trifle; a gewgaw; something pretty and of little value ...1580 arch.
• FOLDEROL a gewgaw, a trifle; a flimsy thing ...c1820
• FOL-DE-ROLL a gewgaw, a trifle, a useless ornament; finery ...1828 Eng. dial.
• FOLDIDOL a gewgaw, a trifle, a useless ornament; finery ...1828 Eng. dial.
• FRIGGLE-FRAGGLES toys, trifles, gewgaws; useless, vain ornaments of dress ...19C Sc.
• FRIM-FRAM a trifle, a whim, a fancy, an invention ...1847 Sc.
• HAIR a very small portion or quantity of anything; a trifle; the smallest possible amount ...1821 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• HAIR TO MAKE A TETHER OF, A a slight pretext of which to make a great deal; a fuss about nothing, a trifle used as an excuse ...1727
• IMPERTINENCES something unsuitable, out of place, trivial, or irrational; an incongruity; a trifle, absurdity, piece of folly ...1603
• ITEMS trifles, finery ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• ITEMY a trifle ...1890 Eng. dial.
• JAPE † a trifle, a toy, a trinket, a plaything ...1436
• JIGGALORUM † a fanciful thing of little value; a trifle ...1613 colloq.
• LAKETS trifles, odd things; small sums of money ...1677 Eng. dial.
• LAKING a toy, a plaything; a trifle ...1790 Eng. dial.
• MEE-MAW a trifle, a gewgaw ...1899 Eng. dial.
• MENTION a trifle; a little bit ...1892 Sc.
• NANNICK a valueless trifle; a knickknack ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NIFF-NAFF a trifling or unimportant thing or matter; something of little value; a knick-knack, a trifle, a bauble; anything very small ...1838 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NIGNAY a knickknack, a trinket, a trifle; a trifling, useless thing or proceeding; an unnecessary ornament or frill, a gewgaw ...a1689 Sc.
• ODDMENT a scrap, a fragment, a remnant; a trifle ...1825 Eng. dial.
• OLD SONG a trifle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PALTERINGS † trifles, worthless or paltry things ...1611
• QUINKINS a mere nothing; a worthless trifle ...1825 Sc.
• STRAW a trifle, a trivial matter ...L17
• TANTADDLEMENT a trifle ...1887 Eng. dial.
• TERRICK † a trifle; a little thing ...1777 Eng. dial.
• THING OF NOTHING a trifle, next to nothing ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• THING OF NOUGHT a trifle, next to nothing ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TIRLY-TOY a trifle, a toy ...a1807 Sc.
• TRICKS small articles or personal belongings; toys, knickknacks, trifles ...1869 Amer. dial.
• TRIM-TRAM † a personal ornament of little value; a pretty toy or trifle; a gewgaw; a worthless thing ...1523
• TRITTLE-TRATTLES * trifles, gewgaws, knickknacks; children's toys ...1896 Sc.
• VANDAVIL a trifle; a thing of little value ...Bk1905 Sc.
• WALLY-DYE a toy, a knickknack, a trifle, a piece of ornamentation or finery ...1802 Sc.
TRIFLE - verbs
• ARSE AROUND to idle, to loaf, to loiter, to fool about, to act irresponsibly, to trifle ...1664
• ASS AROUND to fool around, to loiter, to waste time; to wander aimlessly; to be idle; to act irresponsibly; to trifle ...1914 Amer. sl.
• ASSHOLE AROUND to loaf; to trifle; to wander idly about; to waste time ...1968 Amer. sl.
• ASSLE AROUND to fidget; to trifle ...1920 Amer. sl.
• BAUBLE † to trifle ...1608
• BEAT AROUND to potter, to trifle, to loaf or idle; to gad about; to wander aimlessly ...1960 Amer. dial.
• CADDLE to loaf, to loiter, to potter about, to fuss, to trifle ...1892 Eng. dial.
• DADDLE to be slow in motion or action; to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to saunter ...1756 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DAIDLE to idle, to trifle, to waste time; to potter about; to move or act slowly or in a slovenly manner; to saunter; to loiter ...1756 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DALLY OFF † to put off or defer by trifling ...1574
• DALLY OUT † to trifle with, to elude ...1548
• DANDER to trifle, to misspend one's time ...L16 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DANDLE † to trifle, to play or toy with ...1569
• DANER to trifle, to misspend one's time; to hobble ...1727 Sc.
• DANNER to trifle, to misspend one's time; to hobble ...1727 Sc.
• DAUNDER to trifle, to misspend one's time; to hobble ...1727 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DIDDLE to busy oneself with trifles; to show great activity without accomplishing much; to waste time by dawdling ...1868 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DIDDLE-DADDLE to busy oneself with trifles; to show great activity without accomplishing much; to waste time by dawdling ...1868 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DILDER to trifle, to waste time, to work carelessly ...Bk1900 Sc.
• DONDER to trifle, to misspend one's time; to hobble ...1727 Eng. dial.
• DRUTTLE to dawdle, to waste time, to trifle ...19C Scot
• FAD to busy oneself about trifles; to look after affairs in a quiet way ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FADDLE † to trifle, to toy, to play ...1755 Eng. dial.
• FAFFLE † to saunter, to trifle; to fumble, to work dilatorily ...Bk1900 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• FANDANGLE to hang about, to trifle, to waste time, to 'fool' around ...1892 Ireland
• FANFERLUCHE † to trifle; to act wantonly ...1653
• FANFRELUCHE † to trifle; to act wantonly ...1653
• FEAK to flutter, to be officiously busy about trifles, to be idle, to fidget; to be uneasy or anxious ...1775 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FIRTLE to trifle, to dawdle, to appear busy and do little; to fidget, to move about distractedly ...1881 Eng. dial.
• FOOZLE to trifle away one's time ...colloq.
• FRIBBLE in early use, to act aimlessly or feebly, to busy oneself to no purpose; to fuss about; later, contemptuously (except dialect), to behave frivolously, to trifle ...1640
• GAMFLE to idle, to dally; to neglect one's work from foolish merriment; to act foolishly like lads and lasses at a fair; to frolic, to trifle ...1808 Sc.
• GAMMER to idle, to trifle, to gossip; to saunter, to dawdle ...1788 Eng. dial.
• GAMMER ABOUT to idle, to trifle, to gossip; to saunter, to dawdle ...1788 Eng. dial.
• GAMMER AWAY to idle, to trifle, to gossip; to saunter, to dawdle ...1788 Eng. dial.
• GUCK † to trifle; to play the fool ...c1560 Sc.
• HORSE to indulge in rough jokes or horseplay; to fool around; hence, to waste time in trifling activity; also, to philander (now usually with 'around')...1900 US sl.
• JACKASS ABOUT to be occupied with trifles; to be busy to no purpose ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• JAFF to pass time in a light-hearted convivial manner; to trifle ...1830 Sc.
• JAKE to trifle, to delay, to dawdle ...1568 Sc.
• JAMPH to trifle, to spend time idly; to walk in a slow, idle manner ...1788 Sc.
• JANK to trifle, to shuffle ...1697 Sc.
• JAPE to trifle; to scoff ...Bk1896 sl.
• JAUK to trifle, to delay, to dawdle ...1568 Sc.
• JAUMPH to trifle, to spend time idly; to walk in a slow, idle manner ...1788 Sc.
• LAKE to idle, to trifle; to stop work, to be out of employment ...1856 Eng. dial.
• MAGINATE †* to trifle ...1623
• MAKE CHILDREN'S SHOES to be occupied absurdly or trivially; to look ridiculous; to be made to look ridiculous; to trifle with ...L17
• MAZLE to wander aimlessly about; to trifle; to do anything unskilfully ...1747 Eng. dial.
• MAZZLE to wander aimlessly about; to trifle; to do anything unskilfully ...1747 Eng. dial.
• MONK to tinker, trifle, or fool around; to tamper or interfere with surreptitiously ...1889-90 Amer. sl.
• MONKEY to tinker, trifle, or fool around; to fritter away one's time; usually used with 'with' ...1877-78 Amer. sl.
• MUCK ABOUT to fool around; to trifle with ...1946 Aust. sl.
• NAFF to work in a weak, trifling manner; to trifle, to be frivolous ...Bk1892 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NAFFLE to trifle away time; to potter about; to loiter; to act foolishly ...1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NATTLE to be bustling and stirring about trifles; to be very busy in doing nothing at all ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NESTLE † to be uneasy or restless; to fidget; to move or bustle about; to trifle ...a1700 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• NIFF-NAFF to trifle; to toy; to take finicking trouble; to talk or act foolishly or aimlessly ...1728 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NIGNAY to trifle, to fuss about, to work without result; to hum and haw, to be undecided, to vacillate; to do what is useless; to show reluctance ...1880 Sc.
• ODDLE to go about in an uncertain or useless way; to trifle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PADDLE † to trifle; to deal in a petty trifling way ...a1620
• PADGEL to trifle, to dally ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PALTER to play fast and loose with a matter or thing; to dilly-dally, to trifle with ...1814
• PANDER to trifle at one's work ...Bk1905 Sc.
• PIDDLE to dawdle; to potter; to concern oneself with trifles; to waste one's time ...1774 Amer. dial.
• PIDDLE ABOUT to dawdle; to potter; to concern oneself with trifles; to waste one's time ...1774 Amer. dial.
• PIDDLE AROUND to dawdle; to potter; to concern oneself with trifles; to waste one's time ...1774 Amer. dial.
• PIDDLE AWAY to waste by trifling ...1909 Amer. dial.
• PIFFLE to talk or act in a feeble or trifling way ...M19 colloq.
• PIGGLE to trifle with ...E20 Eng. dial.
• POWTER to potter about; to do trifling simple tasks ...Scot and Irish
• PUITHERNAWL to be busy with trifles ...1960 Irish sl.
• QUEETER to work lazily and languidly, to trifle, to waste time ...1866 Sc.
• QUIDDLE † 1. to trifle or play with ...a1652
2. to trifle, to waste time; to be anxious about trifles; to fuss about, to fidget ...1832 now chiefly Eng. & Amer. dial.
• SANTER to trifle, to play about in a casual offhand manner ...a1810 Sc.
• SAUNTER to trifle, to play about in a casual offhand manner ...a1810 Sc.
• TAFFLE to trifle, to idle, to loiter ...1854 Eng. dial.
• TAIVER to roam about aimlessly or idly; to dally, to trifle, to waste time ...1808 Sc.
• TANKLE to idle, to trifle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TANTLE to walk slowly and feebly; to totter, as a young child; to dawdle, to loiter, to waste time; trifle, to potter about ...1889 Eng. dial.
• TAVER to roam about aimlessly or idly; to dally, to trifle, to waste time ...1808 Sc.
• TEATLE to dawdle, to trifle; to idle away time ...1890 Eng. dial.
• THRIMBLE to fumble; to hesitate, to trifle ...1781 Eng. dial.
• TICK AND TOY to trifle ...1550
• TIDDLE † to potter; to trifle; to fidget, to fuss ...1747 obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.
• TIFF † to be idly employed, to be busy about trifles ...c1440
• TIFFLE † to busy oneself idly; to trifle; to potter about ...c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• TIFFY-TAFFY to dawdle, to trifle ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• TIG to trifle; to dally with ...1634
• TINKER to trifle, to potter ...1658
• TITTLE † to potter; to trifle; to fidget, to fuss ...17C obs. exc. Eng. dial. or sl.
• YAFFLE to trifle ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
TRIFLER, TRIFLING - nouns, person
• BABLE a trifle; a trifling thing or person ...1570 Sc.
• BAFFLER † a juggler, a trickster; a trifler ...1606
• BAUBLE † a childish or foolish person; a silly trifler ...a1606
• BRIGGLER one who attempts but never finishes anything; a trifler ...1930 Amer. dial.
• CLUFF an idle, trifling person ...1825 Sc.
• DADDLER a trifler ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• DAIDLER a trifler ...1882 Sc.
• DANDLER one who dallies, a trifler ...1598
• EEDLE-DODDLE a person who shows no initiative in a crisis; a puddling person who concerns himself with little trifles ...1911 Sc.
• EEDLE-ODDLE a person who shows no initiative in a crisis; a puddling person who concerns himself with little trifles ...1911 Sc.
• FADDLE a trifling person; a busybody ..19C colloq. & Eng. dial.
• FADDLER one who trifles ...1888 Eng. dial.
• FIDDLE-A-DING a nickname for a trifling person ...1904 Amer. dial.
• FRIBBLE a trifling, frivolous fellow; one not occupied in serious employment, a trifler; a silly oaf ...1664
• INCOMPOOT a nincompoop, a fool, a silly person, a trifler ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• KNICK-KNACKER †* a trifler ...1622
• MAN-MILLINER a man who makes or vends millinery; hence, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments ...1792
• MAWMSEY a silly, awkward, trifling fellow ...1881 Eng. dial.
• NACKET a pert, forward, smart boy; a trifling little person; an insignificant person; a wicked, mischievous, or impertinent child; a precocious child ...1833 Sc.
• NAFFLER a person busy about trifles; one who accomplishes little ...Bk1903 Eng. dial.
• PALTERER a trifler with serious matters ...1642
• PIDDELER a trifler; an idle, worthless person; a good-for-nothing ...1779 Amer. dial.
• PIDDLER a trifler; an idle, worthless person; a good-for-nothing ...1779 Amer. dial.
• POCOCURANTE a careless or indifferent person; one who shows little interest or concern; a trifler ...1762
• QUIDDLE a fussy, over-particular, or fastidious person; one hard to satisfy in trifling matters of diet, etc.; one who wastes his energy about trifles ...1856 Eng. & Amer. dial.
• QUIDDLER one who fusses over small matters, or spends time in trifling niceties ...1835 Amer. dial.
• SAUNTERER † a dawdler, a trifler ...1688
• SHOAT a person; an idle, trifling, worthless fellow ...1809 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
• SHOTE (derogatory) a person; a trifling, worthless fellow ...1844 Amer. dial.
• SNIFFLER a trifler, a driveller ...B1900 Sc.
• THRUNK-WIFE a person busy over trifles ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• TIDDLYWINKER a cheat; a trifler ...1893 sl.
• TIFFLER † a trifler, one who potters about ...c1400 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• TIFFY-TAFFY a trifler, a dawdler; one who works in an idle, trifling fashion ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• WAFFLES one who hesitates or vacillates; a trifling, undecided person; a loafer, an idle sauntering person ...B1900 Eng. dial.
• WHIFFMAGIG a trifler; an insignificant, contemptible person; a mean, paltry person ...1871
TRIFLING - adjectives
• BAGATELLE † trifling, trumpery ...1637
• BAUBLING † trifling, contemptible, paltry, insignificant ...1601
• BIDDLE-BADDLE trifling, of small account ...1886 Eng. dial.
• BIG AS A BEE'S KNEE of a very small size; trifling, insignificant ...1838
• DESIPIENT * foolish, silly, childish, playful; playing the fool; idly trifling ...1727
• DIDDLIN trifling; seemingly active, yet accomplishing little; untrustworthy ...1888 Sc.
• DINKY trifling, insignificant, unimpressive ...L19 N. Amer. colloq.
• EATHLY † inconsiderable, slight, trifling ...c890
• FADDLING trifling, over-particular, fastidious ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FARTING trifling, contemptible, insubstantial ...1930s sl.
• FEATHER-WEIGHTED trifling, unimportant ...1870
• FINGLE-FANGLE † trifling, of no importance ...a1652
• FLOCCINAUCICAL inconsiderable, inconsequential, trifling ...1826
• FRIBBLE trifling, frivolous, ridiculous, silly ...1798
• FRIBBLING trifling
• FRIBBLISH trifling
• FUTILOUS † futile, worthless, trifling ...1607
• GIGGISH lively, flighty, wanton, trifling, silly, foolish ...1523
• HALLACKING idle, lazy, trifling, loitering ...1878 Eng. dial.
• HALLOCKING idle, lazy, trifling, loitering ...1878 Eng. dial.
• IMMOMENT †* of no moment; unimportant; trifling ...1606
• ITEMING fidgeting, trifling ...1867 Eng. dial.
• ITEMY trifling; tricky, fidgety ...1889 Eng. dial.
• LEGER † light, not heavy; slight, trifling; also, nimble ...1481-90
• LIEGER † light, not heavy; slight, trifling; also, nimble ...1481-90
• MINCING affected; trifling ...1827 Sc.
• NAFFLING trifling; loitering ...Bk1903 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NANNICKING full of apish tricks; trifling ...1815 Eng. dial.
• NATLING trifling, fanciful, ornamental ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NAUGHTY valueless, good-for-nothing, insignificant, trifling; small and contemptible in appearance ...1835 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• NICKY-NACKY trifling, trivial, useless; troublesome; speaking in an affected or mincing manner ...1818 Sc.
• NIDGETTY * trifling ...1798
• NIDGING trifling, insignificant ...B1900
• NIFFNAFFY fastidious; trifling ...1785 sl.
• NIFLING † of small importance or value; trifling; insignificant; worthless ...1649 rare or obs.
• NUGACIOUS * trivial, trifling, futile; of no moment or importance ...1652
• NUGATORIOUS † trifling, of no value or importance, worthless ...1646
• NUGIFRIVOLOUS free for frivolous trifling ...1589
• ODDLING trifling, uncertain, dallying ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• OFF-PUTTEN dilatory, delaying, trifling ...1892 Sc.
• OFF-PUTTING dilatory, delaying, trifling ...Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• PADDLING trifling, petty; useless ...Bk1905 Sc.
• PADGELLING trifling, petty ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• PAFFLING † silly, trifling, idle ...1811 Eng. dial.
• PALTERING † trifling, worthless, despicable, paltry ...1553
• PALTING † petty, trifling, paltry ...1579 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• PERQUISQUILIAN † thoroughly trifling or worthless ...1647 nonce word
• PIDDLING trifling, trivial, insignificant; loafing ...1899 Amer. dial.
• PILULOUS like a pill in size; small, insignificant, minute, trifling ...1872
• PISS-PIDDLING trifling; loafing ...1965 Amer. dial.
• QUEETERING weak, trifling ...1866 Sc.
• QUIDDLING fussing, trifling, mincing ...1841 Amer. dial.
• SILLY † insignificant, trifling ...1567
• SKILLIGALEE worthless, trifling ...1883
• SKILLYGALEE worthless, trifling ...1883
• SKITTERY trifling, of little importance, trivial ...1905
• TIDDLYWINKING trifling, pottering ...1869 sl.
• TOYOUS †* trifling, ornamental, unessential ...1581
• TRIFLOUS †* trifling; insignificant, trivial; frivolous ...1509
• TWIDDLE-TWADDLE idle, trifling ...1798
TRIFLING - nouns (also see TRIFLE)
• BABBY-LAKIN a child's toy; hence, a trifling thing; a triviality ...1891 Eng. dial.
• BAFFLE † a shuffle; quibbling, trifling ...1783
• BAFFLING † quibbling; trifling ...1653
• BAUBLERY † childish foolery; trifling business ...1583
• BODDLE anything of trifling value ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BRANCH WATER something trifling ...c1960 Amer. dial.
• CHICKEN FEED something trifling, of little importance, esp. a small sum of money; small change ...1837 Amer. dial.
• DALLIANCE † waste of time in trifling, idle delay ...1547-64
• DIDDLE 1. a whim, a fad; something trifling ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
2. slow and trifling working; trifling activity; one who is slow and dawdling in his work ...Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• DIDDLE-DADDLE slow and trifling working; trifling activity; one who is slow and dawdling in his work ...Bk1900 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• FADDLE nonsense, trifling ...1850 colloq. & Eng. dial.
• FAFFLEMENT trifling and unnecessary work ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FIGGLE-FAGGLE conduct which is foolish, ludicrous, or unbecoming; silly or trifling conduct; ridiculous behaviour ...19C Sc.
• FRIBBLE a trifling thing, a frivolous notion or characteristic ...1831
• ITEMING trifling, nonsense ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• JAMPH trifling over work; an habitual idler ...Bk1902 Sc.
• MAFFLE nonsense, trifling ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• MAFFLEMENT nonsense, trifling ...Bk1905 Eng, dial.
• MAG'S TALES † nonsense, trifling ...c1410
• MAG TALES † nonsense, trifling ...c1410
• MONKEY WORK trifling or insignificant work ...1933 Amer. dial.
• NANTLING gossiping or trifling matters ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• NEEDLE † an object of trifling importance or value; hence, a particle ...a1225
• NIFF-NAFF a trifling or unimportant thing or matter; something of little value; a knick-knack, a trifle, a bauble; anything very small ...1838 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• NINCETY-FINCETY † a trifling matter ...1566 obs.
• NUGILOGUE trifling talk ...1649
• PALTERING equivocation, shuffling, playing fast and loose; trifling with serious matters ...1600
• PICAYUNE a person or thing considered small, mean, or insignificant; something of slight value or trifling importance ...1804 Amer. colloq.
• QUIDDLING the spending of time in trifling employments ...1841 Amer. dial.
• SAUNTERING † dawdling, trifling ...1678
• SMALL BEER trifling matters, small things ...1604
• THINGEMTY-THANGEMTY a useless, trifling article; a knickknack; something the name of which is forgotten or unknown ...1877 Eng. dial.
• THINGUMDAIRIE a knickknack; a useless, trifling article; something the name of which is unknown or forgotten ...Bk1905 Sc..
• THINGUMMAGEE a knickknack; a useless, trifling article; something the name of which is unknown or forgotten ...1889 Eng. dial.
• THINGUMSTICK a knickknack; a useless, trifling article; something the name of which is unknown or forgotten ...Bk1905 Eng. dial.
• THINGUMTIBOB a knickknack; a useless, trifling article; something the name of which is unknown or forgotten ...1881 Eng. dial.
TRIFLING - verbs
• SERVE SMALL BEER to discuss trifling subjects ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
TRIM - adjectives
• CLASSY stylish, fine, neat, trim ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• DANDY of the nature of a dandy; affectedly neat, trim, or smart ...1813
• DAPPER neat, trim, smart in dress or appearance ...LME
• DINK neat, nice, finely dressed, trim, spruce ...1721 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
• DINKY neat, trim ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• FEAT-BODIED † having a feat or trim body, neat, spruce ...1750
• NABBY neat, trim, well-dressed; pretentious, dressed above one's station ...1879 Sc.
• NABITY neat, trim, well-dressed; pretentious, dressed above one's station ...Bk1903 Sc.
• NEAT † 1. of persons: inclined to refinement or elegance; finely or elegantly dressed; trim or smart in apparel ...1546
† 2. of women: trim, smart ...1559
• NET †* of persons: trim, smart, or elegant, esp. in dress ...a1300
• NUNTY precise in dress, neat, trim, dapper ...1856 Eng. dial.
• SPINORTIC neat, trim, stylish ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SPONORTIC neat, trim, stylish ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• TIGHT neat in appearance; neatly and carefully dressed; trim, tidy, smart; of a neat compact build, well-made, shapely ...1697 arch. or Eng. dial.
• TRIG pleasingly trim. tidy, neat ...1838 Amer. dial.
TRIM - nouns, person
• NABITY a well-dressed, trim person ...Bk1903 Sc.
TRIM - verbs
• DANDIFY to give the character or style of a dandy to; to make trim and smart like a dandy...1823 colloq.
• JAG to trim up the small branches of a tree or hedge ...Bk1902 Eng. dial.
• KEMB † to trim; to make smooth or elegant ...c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• LAY ON † to trim, to embroider ...1563-83
• PAMPINATE † to prune or trim a vine ...1745
• PAMPINE † to prune or trim a vine ...c1420
• SCOW to trim; to cut off rags or tatters ...Bk1904 Sc.
• TAIL † to put into shape, to trim, to make ready ...c1330
TRIMLY - adverbs
• GASH trimly, neatly, so as to have a good appearance ...1806 Sc.
• JEMMILY neatly, trimly ...1837
TRIMMED - adjectives
• ADDRESSED arrayed, attired, trimmed, dressed ...1393 arch.
TRIMMING - nouns
• EAVESING † the act of trimming the edges of anything; clipping, polling, shearing; also, what is cut off; the clippings of hair ...a800
• FABALA † a flounce, trimming, furbelow ...c1800 Sc.
• FAKEMENT a trimming, a superfluous thing ...L19 sl.
• FASHERIE trouble, annoyance; fuss, unnecessary ceremony; any unnecessary ornamentation, trimming, etc. ...1727 Sc.
• FATTERALS † ribbon ends, loose pieces of trimming; anything loose and trailing; rarely in singular ...1786 Sc.
• FATTRALS † ribbon ends, loose pieces of trimming; anything loose and trailing; rarely in singular ...1786 Sc.
• FIXINGS trimmings ...Bk1905 Amer. dial.
• GARNISH † trimming for articles of dress; some particular material used for this purpose ...1527
• GARNITURE ornament, trimming, etc. added to dress ...1667
• PAMPINATION †* the pruning or trimming of vines ...1398
TRIMNESS - nouns
• FEATNESS elegance, shapeliness, spruceness, trimness ...1576
• JEMMINESS spruceness, neatness, trimness ...1756
TRINIDAD - nouns, person
• FRESH-WATER AMERICAN a person who has never been to the US but speaks with an American accent and embraces other American mannerisms ...1961 Trinidad and Tobago
• FRESH-WATER YANKEE a 'Fresh-Water American' ...1961 Trinidad and Tobago
TRINKET - nouns
• BEAUBELET †* a small toy, trinket, plaything ...c1205
• BIBELOT a small curio or artistic trinket ...L19
• BONNY DIE a trinket, a toy ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BONNY-WALLIES gewgaws, trinkets ...Bk1911 Sc.
• BONNY-WAWLIES gewgaws, trinkets ...Bk1911 Sc.
• FANDANGLES ornaments, trinkets; antics, capers, as in dancing about ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• FANDANGS the fanciful adornments in personal attire; trinkets ...1876 Eng. dial.
• FANDANGS AND FEATHERMENTS trinkets, trifles, personal adornments ...Bk1900 Eng. dial.
• JAPE † a trifle, a toy, a trinket, a plaything ...1436
• JIGGAMBOB a knickknack; a trinket; anything particular, strange or unknown ...1647 sl.
• JIGGUMBOB a knickknack; a trinket; anything particular, strange or unknown ...1640 sl.
• NIGNAY a knickknack, a trinket, a trifle; a trifling, useless thing or proceeding; an unnecessary ornament or frill, a gewgaw ...a1689 Sc.
• TRINKUM-TRANKUMS † trinkets, gewgaws; odd matters of finery, as ribbons, etc. ...1718 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
• VARIORUM a piece of decoration, in furniture, etc.; an ornament, gewgaw, trinket; a flourish in handwriting; any unnecessary appendage ...1864 Sc.
• WALLIE an ornament, a trinket, a knickknack, a toy ...1722 Sc.
• WALLY an ornament, a gewgaw, a trinket, a knickknack, a toy ...1772 Sc.
TRIP - nouns
• BROAD a journey, a trip; a visit ...1823 Amer. dial.
• GALLIVANTINGS jaunts, pleasure-trips, holiday-makings ...Bk1900 Ireland
• GANG a journey, a trip on an errand ...c950 obs. exc. Sc.
• JAUL a holiday; a trip taken for pure enjoyment ...1980s S. Afr.
• JAUNT an excursion, trip, or journey, esp. one taken for pleasure ...1678
• JAWL a holiday; a trip taken for pure enjoyment ...1980s S. Afr.
• JOL a holiday; a trip taken for pure enjoyment ...1980s S. Afr.
• JUNKET a trip, ostensibly taken for business or other serious purposes and paid for by an employer, government, etc., which is characterized by the self-indulgent pursuit of pleasure ...1886 sl., orig. US
• PASEAR an excursion; a trip ...Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• RANDOM SCOOT an outing with no definite destination; a pleasure drive ...1878 Amer. dial.
• RANT a merrymaking or pleasure trip; a rough frolic; a lively story or song; a loud noise ...1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
• RANTUM SCOOT an outing with no definite destination; a pleasure drive ...1896 Amer. dial.
• RUNAROUND a short trip, an excursion ...1950s orig. US
• SCHLEP(P) a difficult or troublesome trip ...1968 Amer. dial.
• SHLEPP a difficult or troublesome trip ...1968 Amer. dial.
• TOOTLE a casual trip, a drive ...colloq.
• VAIGE a journey, trip, outing, or expedition ...1825 Sc.
• VISTA a short journey, a visit, a trip ...1888 Sc.
• VISTIE a short journey, a visit, a trip ...1888 Sc.
TRIP - verbs
• COME A GUTSER to come undone; to fail miserably; to fall heavily; to trip over and fall ...1918 Aust. sl.
• COME A PEARLER to fall down; to trip over an obstacle, usually sustaining some form of injury ...M19 sl.
• COME A PURLER to fall down; to trip over an obstacle, usually sustaining some form of injury ...M19 sl.
• SKELP to skip, trip, walk, or run rapidly; to hurry ...1721
• TIP to step lightly; to trip; to walk mincingly, or on tiptoe ...1819
• TITUBATE * to stagger, to stumble, to trip, to reel, to totter; to rock, roll ...1575
TRIP (journey) - verbs
• JAUNT to make a short journey, trip, or excursion; to take a jaunt for pleasure ...1647
TRIPE - nouns
• KEGMEG tripe ...M19 sl.
• KEGMEG SHOP a tripe shop ...M19 sl.
TRIPLE - adjectives
• THRIBBLE treble, triple, threefold ...1765 Amer. dial.
• THRIPLE treble, triple, threefold ...1909 Amer. dial.
TRIPLE - verbs
• THREBBLE to treble, to triple ...1935 Amer. dial.
• THRIBBLE to treble, to triple ...1765 Amer. dial.
• TRIBBLE to triple ...1810 Amer. dial.
TRIPLET - nouns, person
• THRIBLET a triplet ...1941 Amer. dial.
• THRIN one of three children born at one birth, a triplet ...1805 Eng & Amer. dial.
TRIPPING - interjections
• OOPSIE DOODLES! exclamation used when making a mistake, tripping, etc.
TRITE - adjectives
• BEATEN † well-worn, trite ...a1543
• HACK in common or promiscuous use; hackneyed; trite, commonplace ...1781
• HACKNEY † worn out, like a hired horse, by indiscriminate or vulgar use; threadbare, trite, commonplace; hackneyed ...1596
• OLD FIDDLE 'old hat; trite or outdated ...1979 US sl.
• OLD HAT trite; outdated, old-fashioned ...1911
• TRITICAL trite and critical ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
TRITE - nouns
• BROMIDE a commonplace saying, a trite remark, conventionalism ...1909 sl., orig. US
TRITE - verbs
• HACKNEY to render too familiar, vulgar, trite, or commonplace ...1596
TRIUMPH - verbs
• BAT to triumph, to exult ...1867 Eng. dial.
TRIUMPH - interjections
• GAME ON! an exclamation of triumph at having sorted out initial arrangements ...1980s sl.
• TISTY-TOSTY! † an exclamation of triumph or exultation ...1568
TRIUMPHANT - adjectives
• ACOCK elated, triumphant ...1611 Eng. dial.
• A-COCK-HORSE triumphant ...1611 Eng. dial.
• PALMY bearing or worthy to 'bear the palm', triumphant, flourishing, prosperous ...1602
• TRIPUDIANT dancing for joy, exultant, triumphant ...a1626
TRIUMPHANT - adverbs
• A-COCK-HORSE in an exalted position; in a place of triumph ...M17 obs.
TRIVIAL - adjectives
• AIRY-FAIRY insubstantial, trivial, of minimal importance ...1920s sl.
• BALD bare or destitute of meaning or force; lacking in vividness of description; meagre, trivial, paltry ...1362
• CROW poor; mean; trivial; insignificant; worthless ...Bk1914 criminals' sl.
• CROW-BAIT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DASHY-TRASHY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• DRIBBLE insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• FARTING trivial, irrelevant ...1930s sl.
• FIDDLE-FADDLE insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• FIDFAD insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• HALF-ASSED worthless; stupid; ill-planned; trivial ...M20 US sl.
• HEAN † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial ...c825
• HENE † mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial ...c825
• IMPORTLESS †* without import or significance; trivial, unimportant; meaningless ...1606
• JUNKY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• MEASLY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• MICKEY MOUSE applied to something small and ineffectual; trivial, time-wasting ...1951
• MOULDY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NICKY-NACKY trifling, trivial, useless; troublesome; speaking in an affected or mincing manner ...1818 Sc.
• NO-COUNT worthless, lazy, shiftless; useless, good-for-nothing; insignificant, trivial ...1853 Amer. dial.
• NO GREAT CATCH insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO GREAT SCRATCH insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO GREAT SHAKES insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO-ACCOUNT trivial; worthless ...19C Amer. sl.
• NO-'COUNT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO-GOOD insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NO ODDS insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT FIT TO KILL insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOTHING IN IT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOTHING TO IT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH A CONTINENTAL insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH A DAMN insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH A DIME A DOZEN insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH A HOOT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH SHUCKS insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH THE POWDER AND SHOT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH THE POWDER TO BLOW IT UP insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NOT WORTH TWO HOOTS IN HELL insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• NUGACIOUS * trivial, trifling, futile; of no moment or importance ...1652
• PEANUT small, trivial ...1934 Amer. sl.
• PIDDLING trifling, trivial, insignificant; loafing ...1899 Amer. dial.
• PIFFLING trivial; worthless ...M19 colloq.
• PUERILE childishly foolish; immature or trivial ...17C
• QUOTIDIAN of an everyday character; ordinary, commonplace, trivial ...1461-83
• RINKY-DINK trivial ...1960s Amer. sl.
• SAPLESS of little importance; trivial ...1602
• SHAG insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SINGLE † slight, poor, trivial ...c1449
• SKITTERY trifling, of little importance, trivial ...1905
• SMALL-BEER insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SMALL-CHANGE insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SMALL-POTATO insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SMALL-TIME insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SMALL-TOWN insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• TEN-TWENTY-THIRTY insignificant; trivial; worthless ...Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• TINHORN trivial; worthless ...1880 sl.
• TIN-POT insignificant; trivial; worthless ...1765
• TRIFLOUS †* trifling; insignificant, trivial; frivolous ...1509
• VAIN * trivial, unimportant ...1731
TRIVIAL, TRIVIALITY - nouns
ׇ• BABBY-LAKIN a child's toy; hence, a trifling thing; a triviality ...1891 Eng. dial.
• BOONDOGGLE a trivial, useless, or unnecessary undertaking ...M20 N. Amer. sl.
• CHOPPED LIVER something trivial; something to be scoffed at; usually used in the negative ...1954 Amer. sl.
• DIDDLY-SHIT something very trivial ...M20 US sl.
• FLUMMADIDDLE silly or delusive nonsense; something trivial or ridiculous; balderdash ...1848 Amer.
• IMPERTINENCES something unsuitable, out of place, trivial, or irrational; an incongruity; a trifle, absurdity, piece of folly ...1603
• ITERIDAN a trivial occasion ...1895 Eng. dial.
• JIGAMAREE nonsense or any triviality ...Bk1896 Amer. sl.
• MICKEY MOUSE nonsense; something trivial
• PIGS AND WHISTLES fragments; odds and ends; pieces; knickknacks; trivial things ...1681
• PIMPLE IN A BENT, A † something very minute, small, or trivial ...1807
• PUERILITY the state or quality of being a child; the quality of being childish, foolish, or trivial ...1425
• SCIMPTION a trivial matter; a very small piece, amount, or quantity; a bit, a scrap ...1919 Amer. dial.
• SKIMPTION a trivial matter; a very small piece, amount, or quantity; a bit, a scrap ...1942 Amer. dial.
• STRAW a trifle, a trivial matter ...L17
TRIVIAL - nouns, person
• PEANUT a small or trivial person; something or somebody insignificant ...1914 Amer. sl.
TRIVIAL - verbs
• BOONDOGGLE to engage in a trivial, useless, or unnecessary undertaking ...M20 N. Amer. sl.
• PICK A SALAD † to be engaged in some trivial occupation ...1520