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Trifle vs Squit - What's the difference?

trifle | squit |

As nouns the difference between trifle and squit

is that trifle is an English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream while squit is a person of low status.

As verbs the difference between trifle and squit

is that trifle is to deal with something as if it were of little importance or worth while squit is to disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.

trifle

English

Noun

  • 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 citation , passage=Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy. Strictly speaking, he ought to have been following up the picket–boat, but he was satisfied that the circumstances were sufficiently urgent for him to take risks.}}
  • Anything that is of little importance or worth.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmation strong / As proofs of holy writ.
  • * Drayton
    • with such poor trifles playing
  • A particular kind of pewter.
  • (uncountable) Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.

    • Synonyms

    See also: . * (insignificant amount) iota, jot, scrap, whit * (thing of little importance or worth) bagatelle, minor detail, whiffle

    Derived terms

    * a trifle

    See also

    * ("trifle" on Wikipedia)

    Verb

    (trifl)
  • 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.

    • Anagrams

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    squit

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

  • (derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.
  • * 1989 , Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth (episode "Goodbyeee"):
    • Not a favourite son, of course — Lord, no! — more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes.
  • (Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.

    • Etymology 2

    Short for server quit .

    Verb

  • (internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
  • * 1994 , "Bernhard Lorenz", ChanOp for Irc Opers'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
    • these problems solved themselves atfter(SIC) some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring(SIC) into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.
  • * 1996 , "Jesse", A warning to all irc users'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
    • Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.

    Anagrams

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