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Definition of Fribble

Fribble
Fribble Frib"ble, n. A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. A pert fribble of a peer. --Thackeray.
Fribble
Fribble 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.]

Meaning of Fribble from wikipedia

- 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni...
- the BBC, puppeteering Jo Corner on Corners. Bug and Voice in Whizz and Fribble in Lay-on-Five. He puppeteered Pob in Pob's Programme, Jim in Rosie and...
- Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for...
- for Lucy 1965 Barnaby Spoot and the Exploding Whoopee Cushion as Justin Fribble 1965 Fable as Len 1965 Gideon's Way as Jerry Blake 1966 Who's a Good Boy...
- Swift ...: Containing interesting and valuable papers. p. 341. Timothy Fribble (Pseud.), Jonathan Swift (1749). ****le Tattle. p. 29. Zimmer, Ben (18...
- Scaramouch Count Mexican Prince T'Qu****aw Tickler Hottentot Judgment Osmar Fribble Hunter Swiss Corsican Gambler Young Snip Oscar Ferdinando Childers Colt...
- Max Adrian triumphantly turns Pandarus into a chattering and repulsive fribble of the glossily squalid night-club type"; "The egregious 'B.B.'... is a...
- was shortened to simply "Friendly's". The signature beverage was the "Fribble", also known as the Awful Awful. Blake continued to own shares in Friendly's...
- Garrick's performance she remarked that "...the part he acts in himself (Mr. Fribble) he makes so ridiculous that it is very entertaining" and added that "It...
- Frances in The Female Fortune Teller by Charles Johnson (1726) Dorothy Fribble in Epsom Wells by Thomas Shadwell (1726) Hillaria in Tunbridge Walks by...