trifler

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noun

One who trifles, or treats something as inconsequential.

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Meanings

nountrifler (plural triflers)

plural triflers

  1. One who trifles, or treats something as inconsequential.

    In one word, be anything but a trifler, a trifler with God and your own soul. It was not for this, that God gave you “A mind superior to the vulgar herd.”

    1837, John Wesley, Select Letters, chiefly on personal religion
  2. A pewterer who produced small pewter utensils such as salt cellars.

Origin

From trifle + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

flirter
Cite this entry
APA

trifler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trifler

MLA

“trifler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trifler. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trifler,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trifler.

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