FRIBBLISH ADJ. having the quality of a fribble; frivolous, trifling, ridiculous ...1768 ETYMOLOGY from fribble (n. a trifling, frivolous person) + -ish FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1768 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...His windows are glazed with as much variety as a glazier's sign, but he has picked up a vast quantity of pretty old painted glass. His library is indeed as fribblish as himself, and so furnished with looking-glass that had it the property of representing to him his inside as well as outside, it might read him a better lesson than he could find in his whole collection of books, and shew him his own insignificancy..." From: The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs Delany - Mary Delany
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