trife

¹

[ trahyf ]

adjective

1. characterized by trouble, struggle, desperation, etc.:

   I'm tired of poverty and trife living.

2. showing lack of regard for other people, decency, good sense, etc.; low or despicable:

   He used to be real trife, but the last few years he’s stepped up for his parents.

3. disgusting or off-putting:

   This chicken’s got no salt and it’s bloody in the middle—that’s so trife!

4. petty, shallow, insignificant, etc.:

   These “trife” details in karate like not raising your shoulders and keeping your elbows in aren't as silly as they seem.

   At the end of the day, all this trife crap is not what life is about.

noun

1. trouble; struggle:

   Too bad we’re not producing this stuff in this country, what with some of the trife we’re experiencing regarding trade.

   We have no trife with sensible gentlemen such as yourself who ask to engage in real conversation.

2. things, matters, ways of behaving or speaking, etc., that are shallow, contemptible, or off-putting:

   All I see here is the usual trife about how rich people are always wrong.

   At school he was cheating and bullying and trife like that.

3. trifle; a small amount or degree:

   I woke up around 4 am feeling that it might be just a trife too cool to sleep completely outside, and crawled into the tent.

   That kind of decor is a trife passé these days.

adverb

1. in a troubled or rough way, or in a way that treats others as unimportant:

   I don’t wanna keep living trife when I could learn to be better.

   You're running around acting trife like consequences don't exist.

TRIFE

²

[ trahyf ]

noun

1. none Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary or Federal Electoral Tribunal, a panel of judges that constitutes the electoral authority of Mexico, deciding disputed electoral outcomes, certifying elections, and declaring their winners.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trife¹

First recorded in 1985–90; of uncertain origin; perhaps shortened from trifling ( def ); alternatively, possibly connected to tref ( def )