Trifle vs Minuity - What's the difference?
trifle | minuity |
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.
A trifle; a thing of little importance or worth; something small.
*1612 Thomas Shelton, ''Cervantes Saavedra's (M. de) History of Don Quixote 1.3.6.174:
*:I would not have my soule suffer in the other world for such a minuity as is thy wages.
Smallness; meanness.
*1662 Thomas Salusbury, ''Galileo's Dialogue on the Two World Systems (Dialogue 2):
*:The space of the reversion of the project to the circumference is reduced to the ultimate minuity , which is when the moveable resteth upon the circumference in the very point of contact
As nouns the difference between trifle and minuity
is that trifle is an English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream while minuity is a trifle; a thing of little importance or worth; something small.As a verb trifle
is to deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth.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