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Dawdler :: Dawdler (n.) One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; a trifler.

Sport :: Sport (v. i.) To trifle.

Rifle :: Rifle (n.) A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes..

Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To trifle or play.

Whitworth Gun :: Whitworth gun () A form of rifled cannon and small arms invented by Sir Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England..

Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet..

Shilly-shally :: Shilly-shally (v. i.) To hesitate; to act in an irresolute manner; hence, to occupy one's self with trifles..

Dallier :: Dallier (n.) One who fondles; a trifler; as, dalliers with pleasant words..

Dally :: Dally (v. i.) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle..

Dissipation :: Dissipation (n.) A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.

Fribbler :: Fribbler (n.) A trifler; a fribble.

Fussy :: Fussy (superl) Making a fuss; disposed to make an unnecessary ado about trifles; overnice; fidgety.

Literator :: Literator (n.) A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age..

Finikin :: Finikin (a.) Precise in trifles; idly busy.

Rifle :: Rifle (v. t.) To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

Wanton :: Wanton (n.) A roving, frolicsome thing; a trifler; -- used rarely as a term of endearment..

Trifle :: Trifle (v. t.) To spend in vanity; to fritter away; to waste; as, to trifle away money..

Trinket :: Trinket (v. t.) A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.

Niggle :: Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.

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