Pronounced: FRIB-uhl, verb/noun
Notes: Not a word I can remember running across
Yesterday’s word
The word tucket is “a fanfare on a trumpet”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word is rarely seen these days, as most people use “fanfare” instead. However, “fanfare” is a later word (the mid-1700s), so our word is found in the stage directions of several Shakespeare plays. Our word is thought to derive from the obsolete English verb tuk (to beat a drum; to sound a trumpet).
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