The story
- Old French · derived fromtrufle“mockery”
- Middle English · inherited fromtrifle
- English todaytrifle
From Middle English trifle, trifel, triful, trefle, truyfle, trufful, from Old French trufle (“mockery”), a byform of trufe, truffe (“deception”), of uncertain origin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.