out; drip, drop, fall in drops, dribble; sprinkle, drizzle; leak, ooze, exude, transude, seep, filter, distill, percolate.
trickster, n.
1. deceiver, deluder, hoodwinker, be-guiler, inveigler, bamboozler, dissembler, bluff, pettifogger; fake, faker, phony, humbug; imposter, masquerader, pretender, mountebank, hypocrite, charlatan, Inf
quack; adventurer, rogue, picaroon, rascal, wolf in sheep's clothing, knave, scoundrel, Sl.
four-flusher, villain.
2. swindler, cheat, cheater, fraud, defrauder, confidence man, Sl.
con man, Sl.
flim-flam man, bunko artist, crook, chiseler; sharper, sharpie, Sl.
city slicker, Inf.
fast talker, Inf.
hawk, shark, bilk, bilker, diddler; duper, hoaxer, humbugger; rook, fleecer, gyp, gypper.
3. conjurer, illusionist, sleight-of-hand artist, leger-demainist, magician; juggler, archimage, Archaic. mage, Houdini, escape artist.
tried, adj.
tried out, tested, put through one's or
its paces, put to the test or
through the wringer; time-tested, having stood the test of time, put to the acid test; tried and true, true, proven, proved, sure, certain, Inf
all-right, Inf.
O.K.; dependable, reliable, safe, trusty, trustworthy, reputable; established, well-known, used all the time, favorite.
trifle, n.1. bagatelle, bauble, trinket, knickknack, Inf.
doodad; gimcrack, gewgaw, whimwham, piece of junk; toy, plaything, dalliance, frivolity.
2. triviality, no great matter, no big thing, technicality; unimportant or
inconsequential thing or
matter, nothing to worry or
get upset over, something of no concern, insignificancy, betise, inessential, nothing, nothing at all, Inf.
fiddle-faddle.
3. pittance, piddling sum, small amount, little something, Inf.
nothing much; the least or
slightest amount or
bit, anything, row or
hill of beans, tinker's dam, straw, fig, peppercorn, Inf.
bean; dime, nickel, penny, cent, plug nickel, continental, U.S. Inf.
red cent; the paper it is printed on.
4. little, bit, little or
tiny bit, driblet, drop, smidgen, Inf.
smitch, Inf.
tad; touch, dab, dash, pinch, handful; sprinkling; mouthful, sip, sup, taste, nip, bite; speck, crumb, mite, jot, whit, tittle, particle, iota, molecule, atom; tinge, tincture, trace, hint, suggestion, suspicion, soup£on.
-v. 5. Usu.
trifle with deal with lightly, make light of, take lightly, pass off as nothing, think nothing of; slight, shortchange, overlook, pass over, leave out, omit, ignore; be frivolous about or
with, make sport of, laugh off, joke about, play, toy, dally, amuse oneself, Inf.
frivol; fiddle, tinker, mess, fool, Inf.
fiddle-faddle; handle, finger, paw, put one's hands all over.
6. talk idly, gossip, chitchat, chatter, engage in small talk, talk about nothing; palaver, prattle, prate, rattle or
babble on, talk and talk and talk, go on about nothing.
7. putter around, fiddle around, tinker around, play around, mess around, niggle, finick, Inf.
fool around; goof off, dillydally, hang around, loiter, lay around, twiddle one's thumbs, dawdle, do nothing.
8. Usu.
trifle away fritter, fribble, Inf.
diddle; idle, pass, while; waste, use up, loose.
trifling, adj.1. unimportant, trivial, fiddling, insignificant, signifying nothing, inconsequential; not worth mentioning, of little import, of no moment, Inf. no-account, not worth a fig or a hill of beans, Sl.
two-bit, Sl.
two-by-four, Inf
penny-ante.
2. worthless, valueless, useless, gimcrack; small, low, nominal, Inf.
picayune; miniscule, inconsiderable, tiny, infinitesimal, minute; inadequate, paltry, petty, piddling.
