a. [f. FRIBBLE sb. + -ISH.] Characteristic of or suited to a fribble; frivolous, trifling.
1768. Mrs. Delany, Lett., Ser. II. I. 176. His library is indeed as fribblish as himself.
c. 1770. T. Erskine, Barber, in Poet. Reg. (1810), 329.
| Puppies of France, with unrelenting paws, | |
| That scrape the foretops of our aching heads; | |
| No longer England owns thy fribblish laws, | |
| No more her folly Gallia’s vermin feeds. |
1803. S. Pegge, Anecd. Eng. Lang., 153. You may perhaps be puzzled also to discover how, instead of our received preterit ‘fought,’ he should obtain such a maidenly and fribblish substitute as ‘fit.’
1830. J. Wilson, Noctes Ambrosianæ, in Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. Nov., 848. I love to be candid, fribbleish and feeble.
