| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb fribble.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (fribble) | 1. To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.[Websters]. 2. To totter.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: fribbling, fribbled, fribbles, fribbler, fribblers, fribblingly and fribbledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Frivolous; trining; toolishly captious.[Websters]
2. Being trifling, niggling or piddling.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FRIBBLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: fribble
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Frivolous; trifling; silly.. | 2: [Noun] A frivolous, trifling, contemptible fellow.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Literature | Fribble An effeminate coxcomb of weak nerves, in Garrick's farce of Miss in her Teens. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang in 1811 | 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. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Wikipedic | A Fribble is a milkshake-like product that can be found at Friendly's restaurants. They are made with ice-milk instead of ice-cream. Although some people believe that Fribbles originally came flavored orange, in reality, the only flavors in which Fribbles are available are chocolate and vanilla. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] of no or little importance, frivolous. (references) | 2: [Noun] A trifler. (references) | 3: [Noun] A trifling action. (references) | 4: [Verb] 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. (references) | 5: [Verb] To totter. (references) | 6: [Verb] To waste or fritter. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
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