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Idle trifling; twaddle.

TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
TRIFLING
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland.
TRIFLUCTUATION
A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
TWADDLE
To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.
TWADDLER
One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.