- [uncountable]
a game played on a board with small balls that you try to hit into holes 小型台球 - [countable, usually singular] (literary)
a small or unimportant thing or amount 琐事；无足轻重的事；微量
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in sense (2)): from French, from Italian bagatella, perhaps from baga ‘baggage’ or from a diminutive of Latin baca ‘berry’. Sense (1) dates from the early 19th cent.