fribbles

She was actually enjoying herself a little, even if the persons with whom she was conversing were the sort that Great-uncle would have condemned as empty-headed fribbles.

Gatlinburg 2010

OH and another time I was in Friendly's when a man got into a fight with the manager about the sub-par quality of his fribble, and how he'd had fribbles in Friendly's all across the country and he had never had a fribble as bad as this.

YesButNoButYes: Fribble, Frosty or Shake? 2008

In the end, I enjoyed the curlicues and fribbles on the Town Hall so much I came back on Saturday to take a few photos - as well as trying a couple more beers I'd not got to the first time, of course!

So the year turns again... jinty 2006

What dullards, what fribbles, what addle-headed simple coxcombs!

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

“We need kettles, stoves and calico more than fribbles,” said Richard, God the Fathering.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Unfortunately such stalls do not contain fribbles like china tea sets and silver forks.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

“We need kettles, stoves and calico more than fribbles,” said Richard, God the Fathering.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Unfortunately such stalls do not contain fribbles like china tea sets and silver forks.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

How the poor creature fribbles in his gait, and scuttles from place to place to despatch his necessary affairs in painful daylight, that he may return to the constant twilight preserved in that scene of wantonness, Messalina's bedchamber.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

Although robustious, our fribbles were harmless enough — ebullitions of animal spirit, sometimes perhaps of gaiety unguarded — though each shade, treading the Celestian way, as most of them do, and recurring to those Noctes Ambrosianae, might e'en repeat to the other the words on a memorable occasion addressed by Curran to Lord

Marse Henry : an autobiography, 1919