trifler

English

Etymology

trifle + -er

Noun

trifler (plural triflers)

  1. One who trifles, or treats something as inconsequential.
    • 1837, John Wesley, Select Letters, chiefly on personal religion
      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.”
  2. A pewterer who produced small pewter utensils such as salt cellars.

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