Usually means: Dessert with layers, cream, fruit.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word trifle:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. trifle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trifle: Merriam-Webster
  3. trifle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trifle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trifle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trifle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trifle, trifle: Wordnik
  8. trifle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trifle: Wiktionary
  10. trifle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trifle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trifle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trifle: Dictionary.com
  14. trifle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. trifle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Trifle (disambiguation), Trifle (trimaran), Trifle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Trifle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. trifle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. trifle: Rhymezone
  20. trifle, trifle (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. trifle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Trifle: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. trifle: FreeDictionary.org
  24. trifle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. trifle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trifle: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trifle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trifle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trifle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. trifle, trifle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. trifle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See trifled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (cooking) An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
noun:  (figurative) Anything that is of little importance or worth.
noun:  An insignificant amount of money.
noun:  (figurative) A very small amount (of something).
noun:  A particular kind of pewter.
noun:  (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
verb:  (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
verb:  (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
verb:  (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
verb:  (transitive) To squander or waste.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make a trifle of, to make trivial.

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