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1 trifle
1) (anything of very little value: $100 is a trifle when one is very rich.) malenkost2) ((a dish of) a sweet pudding made of sponge-cake, fruit, cream etc: I'm making a trifle for dessert.) sadni kolač•- trifling* * *[tráifl]1.nounmalenkost, bagatela, nepomembnost; figuratively majhna vsota; figuratively mrvica, košček; culinary narastek, napihnjen kolač; plural posoda, predmeti iz kositrato waste one's time on trifles — zapravljati čas z malenkostmi;2.intransitive verb & transitive verbigra(čka)ti se; šaliti se, delati (počenjati) šale, norčije, burke ( with z); zabavati se; flirtati; površno delati; čas tratitihe is not to be trifled with — z njim se ni šaliti, on ne pozna šale
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