DEFINITIONS CONTINUED NOUN 4. frivolity, nonsense VERB 1. to falter, to stammer (obsolete) 2. to falter, to totter in walking (obsolete) 3. in early use, to act aimlessly or feebly, to busy oneself to no purpose; to fuss about; later, contemptuously (except dialect), to behave frivolously, to trifle 4. to frizzle (Scottish) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES onomatopœic; possibly influenced in sense by association with frivol a 1627 - The Mayor of Quinborough, A Comedy, Thomas Middleton; see Example below (for verb 1)
From: A Select Collection of Old Plays in Twelve Volumes Volume the Eleventh, 1780 The Mayor of Quinborough, by Thomas Middleton Act V Scene I P. 170
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