Fribble

Quick meaning: Fribble is a verb meaning To waste or fritter.

Meaning

To waste or fritter.

More Meanings

1. To behave in a frivolous way.
2. To totter.
3. Of little or no importance, frivolous.
4. A trifling action.
5. A trifler.
6. A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.

Example Sentences

We dried in the sun on a boulder as warm as a dying stove, and fribbled and monkeyed with each other, priming for later.

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; […]

The parish districts--and especially their lady visitors--declared that they were neglected; the rector never got a quiet cup of tea in his own house, nor even a quiet placid moment; for the sounds of young people laughing and, as Mrs. Fretchett called it, "fribbling" upstairs would float down to him working in his study, and then he would pish and pshaw, and move his chair impatiently.

Word Forms

• fribbles
• fribbling
• fribbled

Synonyms for fribble

Depending on context, synonyms include dandyling, popinjay, barbermonger, blade, blood, buck.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include piffle, fritter, trifle, footle, swattle, fangle.

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