fribble
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
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a foolish or frivolous person; trifler.
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anything trifling or frivolous.
adjective
verb
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(tr) to fritter away; waste
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(intr) to act frivolously; trifle
noun
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of fribble
First recorded in 1620–30; perhaps alteration of frivol
Example Sentences
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But during his four-day visit to Washington last week, the Prince kept the flirting to a fribble.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the film Brummell is at one moment a fribble fellow who orders his dressing gown to match his sheets and his boots buffed with champagne.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a fribble thing called French Without Tears, but the customers liked it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The irony is that all this fluff and fribble are arriving just as more women are getting serious about wine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hours filled with a keen-edged delight jumped to her memory, hours that had carried her away from the falseness of social fribble to clean, wind-swept, open spaces of the mind.
From The Big-Town Round-Up by Raine, William MacLeod
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