fribble
English
editEtymology
editPerhaps related to frivol.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪbəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editfribble (third-person singular simple present fribbles, present participle fribbling, simple past and past participle fribbled)
- To waste or fritter.
- To behave in a frivolous way.
- 1984, Guy Davenport, Apples and Pears:
- We dried in the sun on a boulder as warm as a dying stove, and fribbled and monkeyed with each other, priming for later.
- To totter.
Translations
editbehave in a frivolous way
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Adjective
editfribble (comparative more fribble, superlative most fribble)
- Of little or no importance, frivolous.
Translations
editOf little or no importance
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Noun
editfribble (plural fribbles)
- A trifling action.
- A trifler.
- A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
- 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Paper out of The Spectator”, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume III, London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC, page 68:
- The plot of the piece was quite a new one. A young woman was repreſented with a great number of ſuitors, ſelecting a pert fribble of a peer, in place of the hero; […]
Translations
editfrivolous, contemptible fellow
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