A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580

by A. L. Mayhew; Walter W. Skeat

[ Trotevale], sb. a trifling thing, HD.

[ Trouble], adj. troubled, S2, C2.—AF. truble, pp. of trubler; see [Trublen].

[ Trouthe], sb. truth, S.2, C3; see [Trewthe].

[ Trowabile], adj. credible, H.

[ Trowen], v. to believe, S, S2, S3, C2, C3, H, PP; tru, S2; trawed, pt. pl., expected, S2.—Icel. trúa; Swed. tro. See [Trewen].

[ Trowyng], sb. belief, S2.

[ Truage], sb. tribute, S2; see [Trewage].

[ Trublen], v. to trouble, W; troblen, W; triblen, H.—AF. trubler; Late Lat. turbulare.

[ Trufle], sb. nonsense, absurd tale, trifle, PP, SkD; trofle, S3, SkD; trefele, PP; triful, PP; trifle, PP.—AF. trufle, trofle, mockery, OF. truffe, a jest, a flout, also a truffle (Cotg.); Lat. tubera, truffles; see SkD (s.v. truffle). For the intrusive l cf. [Triacle].

[ Truflen], v. to beguile, SkD; trofle, SkD; trifelyn, Prompt.; treoflynge, pr. p., S2.—OF. truffler, truffer, to mock (Cotg.).