Definition of Frible
Frib"ble (?), a. [Cf. F.
frivole, L. frivolus, or E. frippery.]
Frivolous; trifling; silly.
Frib"ble, n. A frivolous,
contemptible fellow; a fop.
A pert fribble of a peer.
Thackeray.
Frib"ble, v. i. 1.
To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act
frivolously.
The fools that are fribbling round about
you. Thackeray.
2. To totter. [Obs.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
FRIBBLE. An effeminate fop; a name borrowed from a
celebrated character of that kind, in the farce of Miss in her
Teens, written by Mr. Garrick.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- To waste or fritter.
- To behave in a frivolous way.
*1984: We dried in the sun on a boulder as warm as a dying stove, and fribbled and monkeyed with each other, priming for later. — Guy Davenport, Apples and Pears
- To totter.
- of no or little importance, frivolous.
- A trifling action.
- A trifler.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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