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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

- Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer and satirist who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his...
- 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni...
- Swift ...: Containing interesting and valuable papers. p. 341. Timothy Fribble (Pseud.), Jonathan Swift (1749). ****le Tattle. p. 29. Zimmer, Ben (18...
- 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...
- 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...
- Max Adrian triumphantly turns Pandarus into a chattering and repulsive fribble of the glossily squalid night-club type"; "The egregious 'B.B.'... is a...
- Juniper Scaramouch Mexican Prince T'Qu****aw Tickler Hottentot Judgment Fribble Swiss Young Snip Ferdinando Whitelegs Childers (Bartlett) Childers (Smales)...
- 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...
- chance to view his m****cripts around 1813, opined that "Melmoth was a fribble in literature". On the other hand, William Coxe praised him as a literary...
- September 1795, as Charles Surface in Sheridan's The School for Scandal and Fribble in David Garrick's Miss in Her Teens. The performance is unchronicled by...