All 5 Uses of
trifle
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Now I'd give a trifle to know who he is.†
Chpt 6 *
- The wife was playing the piano in the coffee palace on Saturdays for a very trifling consideration and who was it gave me the wheeze she was doing the other business?†
Chpt 11
- There was that in her young voice that told that she was not a one to be lightly trifled with.†
Chpt 13 *
- He is older now (you and I may whisper it) and a trifle stooped in the shoulders yet in the whirligig of years a grave dignity has come to the conscientious second accountant of the Ulster bank, College Green branch.†
Chpt 14
- Though a wellpreserved man of no little stamina, if a trifle prone to baldness, there was something spurious in the cut of his jib that suggested a jail delivery and it required no violent stretch of imagination to associate such a weirdlooking specimen with the oakum and treadmill fraternity.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(trifle with as in: trifle with her affections) to treat somebody or something thoughtlessly or without respect
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(trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity