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Examples of fribble in a Sentence
somehow, he managed to spend the whole morning fribbling instead of doing his assigned work
Origin and Etymology of fribble
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First Known Use: 1633
in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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Synonyms
doodle, fiddle (around), fool around, goof (around), kick around, mess around, monkey (around), play, potter (around), putter (around), trifle;
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Related Words
dally, dawdle, dillydally, hang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, lounge;
Recent Examples of fribble from the Web
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And then Jimmy and his mom go to Friendly’s for dinner and ice cream, and Jimmy tries to convince his mom that a fribble is dinner.
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