trifle (v.) Copy link • trifle (v.): lūdo, si, sum, 3: v. to fool (I.). So illūdo, 3 (to t. away): cf. ib. (II.). (Nugari denotes something more than trifling: = to talk nonsense.) Sometimes opp. to being in earnest: jŏcor, 1: v. to joke. Sometimes used of poetical composition: lūdo: Hor. Od. 4, 9, 9.