{"id":24686,"date":"2026-07-24T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24686"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:37:05","slug":"fribblish-fribblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24686","title":{"rendered":"Fribblish Fribblers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you <strong>fribble<\/strong>? Are you a <strong>fribblish fribbler<\/strong>?  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/\/images\/blog\/fribble.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Fribble\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fribble<\/strong> [\u02c8f\u0279\u026ab\u0259l] is an old word meaning to waste or fritter; to behave in a frivolous way or to totter. As an adjective it means of little or no importance or frivolous, and as a noun it means a trifling action, a trifler, a frivolous, contemptible fellow or a fop [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fribble\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>It is possibly related to <strong>frivol<\/strong> (to behave frivolously, to triffle), from French <strong>frivole<\/strong> (vain, conceited), from Latin <strong>fr\u012bvolus<\/strong> (silly, empty, trifling, frivolous, worthless), possibly from PIE <em>*b\u02b0reyH-<\/em> (to scrape, pierce) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/frivol#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Words related to <strong>fribble<\/strong> include <strong>fribbledom<\/strong> (frivolous or trifling behaviour), <strong>fribbleism<\/strong> (frivolity), <strong>fribbler<\/strong> (one who trifles or behaves frivolously), and <strong>fribblish<\/strong> (frivolous, trifling).<\/p>\n<p>Words related to <strong>frivol<\/strong> include <strong>frivolous<\/strong> (silly, slight, trivial), <strong>frivolity<\/strong> (frivolous act, state of being frivolous) and maybe <strong>brine<\/strong> (salt water) and <strong>fray<\/strong> in English, <strong>frivol<\/strong> (frivolous) in Romanian, <strong>fr\u00edvolo<\/strong> (frivolous, futile, inconstant, silly) in Portuguese, <strong>fr\u00edvolo<\/strong> (frivolous, flippant) in Spanish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/frivolus#Latin\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you fribble? Are you a fribblish fribbler? Fribble [\u02c8f\u0279\u026ab\u0259l] is an old word meaning to waste or fritter; to behave in a frivolous way or to totter. As an adjective it means of little or no importance or frivolous, and as a noun it means a trifling action, a trifler, a frivolous, contemptible fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,302,41,45,51,64,78],"tags":[164,158,654,656,657,655,658,660,659,138,281,163],"class_list":["post-24686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-late-latin","category-portuguese","category-proto-indo-european","category-romanian","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-fribble","tag-fribbledom","tag-fribbleism","tag-fribbler","tag-fribblish","tag-frivolity","tag-frivolous","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24686"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24689,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24686\/revisions\/24689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}