Not in dignified use. Also frivel, frivvle. [Back-formation from FRIVOLOUS.] intr. To behave frivolously, to trifle. Also, to frivol away (money, time): to spend foolishly.
1866. Mrs. Whitney, L. Goldthwaite, iv. (1873), 56. They will come, and frivel about the gates, without ever once entering in.
1883. Black, in Illustr. Lond. News, 251. If you want to frivvle … I shut my door on you.
1885. L. Wingfield, Barbara Philpot, II. v. 152. Had he not drawn 5,000l. a year … which his Duchess frivolled away?
Hence Frivolling vbl. sb. and ppl. a. Also Frivoller, one who ‘frivols.’
1882. Tales Mod. Oxf., vii. 183. So between cricket and boating and frivoling at the vicarage, the sunny summer days sped along.
1883. Athenæum, 31 March, 405/3. We fear that very little confidence could be felt in the frivolling princes of Simla.
1889. A. Sergeant, Esther Denison, II. IV. xxxii. 268. I am a born trifler—a flâneur—a ‘frivoller,’ as we call it in our modern slang.
