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Definition of Trifle away
1. Verb. Spend wastefully. "Wanton one's money away"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifle Away
Literary usage of Trifle away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Panoplist, Or, the Christian's Armory (1808)
"The bulk of our expense is made up of trifling sums, and as he that wastes his
minutes will be found to trifle away his life, so he that throws away his ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1814)
"Ifir the common practise of a prefatory breaking-in, without the object of killing
the game being made part of the lesson : it is to trifle away time ; or, ..."
3. The Ladies Library by Richard Steele (1772)
"... is from its immediate effect; wherefore if children be permitted to trifle
away their ttme, they will foon learn to trifle away their innocence. ..."
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