Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trifler; a coxcomb; a fribble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A trifler; a fribble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
trifles or behavesfrivolously .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If there be anything in this world from which it would be desirable to see men delivered, it is from a certain small, cheap wisdom which expresses itself in general verdicts on all humanity, and enables the fribbler or dolt who can not see beyond his nose to give an offhand summary of the infinite.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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He was an empty fribbler, who kept perpetually laughing about nothing at all.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910
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He was an empty fribbler, who kept perpetually laughing about nothing at all.
LXXXIII 1909
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He to whom the destiny of the realm is entrusted could scarcely be a fribbler!
A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864
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He was an empty fribbler, who kept perpetually laughing about nothing at all.
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535
erinoftheyear commented on the word fribbler
Fribbler. Haha, sounds funny.
August 18, 2007