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Trilling vs Trifling - What's the difference?

trilling | trifling |

As nouns the difference between trilling and trifling

is that trilling is (obsolete) one of three children born at the same birth; a triplet while trifling is the act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.

As a verb trilling

is .

As an adjective trifling is

trivial, or of little importance.

trilling

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) Drilling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) One of three children born at the same birth; a triplet.
    • (Wright)
  • (crystallography) A compound crystal consisting of three individuals.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    trifling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • trivial, or of little importance
  • * 2005 , .
    • it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
  • idle or frivolous

    • Synonyms

    * trivial * inconsequential * petty * See also

    Related terms

    * trifle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
  • * George Croly, Samuel Warren, Marston, or the Memoirs of a Statesman
    • He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.

    Anagrams

    * flirting