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triflest

triflest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of trifle.

Meaning of trifle

Verb

trifle (third-person singular simple present trifles, present participle trifling, simple past and past participle trifled)

  1. (intransitive) To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
    • You must not trifle with her affections.
  2. (intransitive) To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
    • […] playing and trifling are completely banished out of my mind […]1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter 27, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To inconsequentially toy with something.
    • Mr. Micawber, leaning back in his chair, trifled with his eye-glass and cast his eyes up at the ceiling […]1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 28, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    fiddle
  4. (transitive) To squander or waste.
    • We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    Synonyms:
    fritter, wanton
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To make a trifle of, to make trivial.
    • […] but this sore night / Hath trifled former knowings.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

See all 11 meanings of trifle

Origin of triflest

trifle + -est

Questions about triflest

What is triflest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Triflest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of trifle.

Words near triflest in the dictionary

  1. trifled with
  2. trifler
  3. triflers
  4. trifles
  5. trifles with
  6. triflest
  7. triflet
  8. trifleth
  9. triflets
  10. triflic
  11. triflic acid

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