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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A trifler; a coxcomb; a fribble.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who trifles or behaves frivolously.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A trifler; a fribble.

Etymologies

  1. fribble +‎ -er (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “If there be anything in this world from which it would be desirable to see men delivered, it is from a certain small, cheap wisdom which expresses itself in general verdicts on all humanity, and enables the fribbler or dolt who can not see beyond his nose to give an offhand summary of the infinite.”

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

  • “He was an empty fribbler, who kept perpetually laughing about nothing at all.”

    LXXXIII

  • “He to whom the destiny of the realm is entrusted could scarcely be a fribbler!”

    A Hungarian Nabob

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Words with the same meaning

  1. trifler
  1. fribble

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