Definitions for fribbles

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fribbles frib·ble

Spelling: [frib-uh l]

IPA: /ˈfrɪb əl/

Fribbles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in fribbles (bbefilrs).

Definitions for fribbles

noun

1. a foolish or frivolous person; trifler.
2. anything trifling or frivolous.
3. frivolousness.

adjective

1. frivolous; foolish; trifling.

verb (used with object)

1. to waste foolishly (often followed by away):

verb (used without object)

1. to act in a foolish or frivolous manner; trifle.

Origin of fribbles

First recorded in 1620-30; perhaps alteration of frivol

Examples for fribbles

In fribble he imitated no fewer than eleven men of fashion so that every one recognised them.

Out here a Howat Penny, just like any fribble about the Court.

But I might say that she is in fulness a woman—not a fribble, or one of those pick-me-up-and-carry-me women.

The days are gone when a girl would so much as look at such a fribble as Sir Plume.

He ought to have been taken about the country in order to show the world the true meaning of a fribble and a beau.

There is no room in the busy throng of ardent blackers for the idler or the fribble.

And so he became a priest, a fribble, and a coxcomb, but a man of truth.