a. Obs. rare. Also 6 tryfelous, triflelous. [app. f. TRIFLE sb. + -OUS: cf. OF. trufous (13th c.).] Trifling; insignificant, trivial; frivolous.
1509. Bp. Fisher, Fun. Serm. C’tess Richmond, Wks. (E. E. T. S.), I. 291. Tryfelous thynges that were lytell to be regarded. Ibid. (1535), Ways Perfect Relig., ibid., 384. How light, & howe triflelous a thing it is.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 43. It is a Childish and triflous thing. Ibid., 340. These races of vapours out of the Stomack, are triflous.
