Monday, March 3, 2008

mystery word

can anyone define the word "triflin" for me? i have been fascinated by this word and it's use ever since i moved into princeton city schools and heard it for the first time way back in 5th grade. other possible spellings include triflent/trifling/triflen. i've looked on dictionary.com several times and i can never find a word with a definition that matches how it's used. example of the word in use: "that hoe is triflin!", or "ugh, people is triflin"(IHOP employee said this while cleaning windows). dictionary.com's closest match to triflin is the word trifling, and the definition of the word doesn't match the context in which it's used. urbandictionary.com has several entries for triflin and several different definitions. some of which are: "lazy ass man, relies on his woman for money", "a creep, someone whos nosy", and finally "dirty".

what is the real meaning of this word? what is the real word?! am i just a silly white boy for questioning if it's actually a real word? probably.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It means disgusting.