fribble

Plural: fribbles

Verb

Verb Forms: fribbled, fribbling, fribbles

• To act foolishly; to trifle or behave in a silly way.
• To waste or fritter.
• To behave in a frivolous way.
• To totter.

Adj

• Of little or no importance, frivolous.

Noun

• A trifling action.
• A trifler.
• A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.

Examples

• To fribble away a high-scoring tile on a two-point word is a common beginner’s mistake.

Synonyms

Jemmy-Jessamy, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dandyling, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff

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