"a trifle" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Could you lend me some money? I'm a trifle short of what I need to pay the rent."
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          "ref": "1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book 3, Chapter 23",
          "text": "He contemplated the large well-proportioned letters and final flourish, with his head a trifle on one side for an instant […]",
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          "ref": "1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!",
          "text": "Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy. Strictly speaking, he ought to have been following up the picket–boat, but he was satisfied that the circumstances were sufficiently urgent for him to take risks.",
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          "ref": "1957, Neville Shute, chapter 4, in On the Beach, New York: William Morrow",
          "text": "He stared at the chart. “Maybe we’ll move away towards the west a trifle, and come down on Fiji from the north.”",
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          "text": "2006, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 411,\n“Let’s get on with it,” Sikiokuu replied, a trifle impatiently."
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        "A little, slightly."
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          "slightly",
          "slightly"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "a bit"
        },
        {
          "word": "a smidgeon"
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        {
          "word": "a tad"
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  "word": "a trifle"
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          "text": "Could you lend me some money? I'm a trifle short of what I need to pay the rent."
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          "text": "Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy. Strictly speaking, he ought to have been following up the picket–boat, but he was satisfied that the circumstances were sufficiently urgent for him to take risks.",
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          "text": "2006, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, New York: Knopf Doubleday, Book 3, p. 411,\n“Let’s get on with it,” Sikiokuu replied, a trifle impatiently."
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        "A little, slightly."
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