Crossword clues for fribble
fribble
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fribble \Frib"ble\, a. [Cf. F. frivole, L. frivolus, or E. frippery.] Frivolous; trifling; silly.
Fribble \Frib"ble\, n. A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
A pert fribble of a peer.
--Thackeray.
Fribble \Frib"ble\, v. i.
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To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously.
The fools that are fribbling round about you.
--Thackeray. To totter. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
Of no or little importance, frivolous. n. 1 A trifling action. 2 A trifler. 3 A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. v
1 To waste or fritter. 2 To behave in a frivolous way. 3 To totter.
Usage examples of "fribble".
Allowing the marquessate to fall into the hands of a fribble is intolerable.
Matching wits with a fatuous fribble of uncertain temperament could only hurt Harriet.
In public, an empty-headed fribble pursuing a useless life of fashion and gossip.
From the moment she had realized that he was more than a posturing fribble, she had been doomed.
Whether he judged her as the fashionable, mischievous young fribble the world knew or the hard-minded and determined woman she understood herself to be, only the next few minutes would answer.
Please recall that as a fribble of the highest order I am much more interested in my own assorted schemes and bumble broths to give a thought to anyone else.
There he was, the same old usual Hayley, as much put to it as the merest fribble of his set to employ an hour unfilled by poker!
Little though he might like doing the pretty amongst all the smarts and fribbles of the ton, he hoped he was not rag-mannered.
Patsy taking them out for the local equivalent of Fribbles or Suzy getting them gold chains?
I know how much public money is wasted on fribbles like funerals and feasts!
I don't keep track of every fribbling, stodgy godlet infesting it, nor would I want to.