Trifle vs Danger - What's the difference?
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An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
An insignificant amount.
* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=17 Anything that is of little importance or worth.
* Shakespeare
* Drayton
A particular kind of pewter.
(uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
To deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.
To act, speak, or otherwise behave with jest.
To inconsequentially toy with something.
To squander or waste.
(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
(obsolete) Liability.
* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:
(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
(obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
Exposure to liable harm.
An instance or cause of liable harm.
Mischief.
(obsolete) To claim liability.
(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
(obsolete) To run the risk.
* Oxford English Dictionary
As nouns the difference between trifle and danger
is that trifle is an english dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream while danger is (obsolete) ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise see in one's danger, below.As verbs the difference between trifle and danger
is that trifle is to deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth while danger is (obsolete) to claim liability.trifle
English
Noun
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- Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.
- with such poor trifles playing
Synonyms
See also: . * (insignificant amount) iota, jot, scrap, whit * (thing of little importance or worth) bagatelle, minor detail, whiffleDerived terms
* a trifleSee also
* ("trifle" on Wikipedia)Verb
(trifl)Anagrams
* * ----danger
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You stand within his danger , do you not?" (Shakespeare, ''Merchant of Venice'', 4:1:180)
- Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.
- Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.
- (Chaucer)
- (Chaucer)
- "Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" ((William Hazlitt), ''Table talk'').
- "Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (''Times'', 5 Sept. 3/2).
- "We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, ''Julius Caesar'', 2:1:17).