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trifler

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Etymology

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    From trifle + -er.

    Noun

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    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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