"Bagatelle" is a word in ENGLISH
A trifle; a thing of no importance.
A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end,
cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod
held in the hand of the player.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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Manager: Twenty teams in the league and you lot finish bottom ?Captain: Well, it could have been worse.Manager: How ?Captain: There could have been more teams in the league !
n. toy, plaything. v. /AG-, MANG-:-EN/ 1. to play with as with a toy; to trifle with. Saan mo nga …
Read the complete definitionDoing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles.
Read the complete definitionWithout reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary.
Read the complete definitionalóla - A small, coarsely woven basket made of buri-leaves, etc. and serving chiefly as a hen-nest or receptacle for …
Read the complete definitionHaving the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish; affected; trifling.
Read the complete definitionA trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
Read the complete definitionTo utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
Read the complete definitionAn ancient ten-ure of the law of Scotland, the duty payable being trifling, as a penny or a pepper-corn, etc., …
Read the complete definitionResembling a boy in a manners or opinions; belonging to a boy; childish; trifling; puerile.
Read the complete definitionA single word; the slightest effort; a trifle.
Read the complete definitionTending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of …
Read the complete definitionPuerile; trifling; weak.
Read the complete definitionIn the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
Read the complete definitionFamiliar or trifling talk; prattle.
Read the complete definitionIn a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much.
Read the complete definitionTo trifle in love; to stimulate affection or interest; to play the coquette; to deal playfully instead of seriously; to …
Read the complete definitionAttempts to attract admiration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love.
Read the complete definitionA vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes …
Read the complete definitionThe act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play.
Read the complete definitionTo waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; …
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