frivolling

The scene is commonplace enough; twaddle and tea, after tennis; "frivolling" -- it is their word; women too empty-headed and men too tired to do anything else.

Appearances Being Notes of Travel 1897

She brought him to his bearings by suddenly "frivolling" again.

Winnie Childs The Shop Girl 1901

In other news, it appears I'm going to be frivolling in front of fireworks tomorrow night.

And of we go again ... karenmiller 2007

All day long the happy pair enjoyed each other's company aloft, leaping from corn-ear to thistle-head, from thistle-head to poppy, and back again to corn-ear, feasting, frivolling, stalking bluebottles.

"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character Douglas English

It was almost as if, directly her husband, the master of her life and her children's lives, turned his back, she filled her purse from the store he had left behind him, and went off frivolling.

Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920

So while her society friends at home went from one gay scene to another, dancing and frivolling through the night and sleeping away the morning,

The Man of the Desert Grace Livingston Hill 1906

She had a way of making the frivolling talk of the supper table appear a warrantable substitute for the things that Peter knew, even while he echoed her phrases, that he wasn't getting.

The Lovely Lady Mary Hunter Austin 1901

Going, gadding, frivolling, flirting -- that was the old

What's-His-Name George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Doctor, frivolling with a lovely filly, pedigree not known.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

Doctor, frivolling with a lovely filly, pedigree not known.

Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897