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Fribbler   Listen
noun
Fribbler  n.  A trifler; a fribble.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fribbler" Quotes from Famous Books



... more contemptible than Impotence of Body; and these frivolous Admirers would be but tenderly used, in being only included in the same Term with the Insufficient another Way. They whom my Correspondent calls Male Coquets, shall hereafter be called Fribblers. A Fribbler is one who professes Rapture and Admiration for the Woman to whom he addresses, and dreads nothing so much as her Consent. His Heart can flutter by the Force of Imagination, but cannot fix from the Force of Judgment. It is not uncommon for the Parents ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele



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