fribble

• Chesterfield was no mere fribble or rake. —  English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century
• And incorrigible fribble, 347. —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)
• He had too much intellect to be a mere fribble, and had not the strong animal passions of the thorough debauchee. —  Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series
• To Macaulay he was a gentleman-usher at heart, a Republican whose Republicanism like the courage of a bully or the love of a fribble was only strong and ardent when there was no occasion for it, a man who blended the faults of Grub Street with the faults of St. James's Street, and who united to the vanity, the jealousy and the irritability of a man of letters, the affected superciliousness and apathy of a man of ton. —  The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
• Upon my soul, I think ROLAND the most empty-headed fribble, the most affected coxcomb, and the most conceited noodle in the whole world. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 28, 1891

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