Pronounced: EK-log, noun
Notes: A highly specific word, but I didn’t know it
Yesterday’s word
The word fribble, as a verb, means “to act in a wasteful or frivolous manner” or “to fritter away”. As a noun, it means “a wasteful or frivolous person or thing”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
The origin of our word is not known for certain. It it thought to be related to frivol (to behave frivolously), which came from the Latin word frivolus (worthless). I think that our word is somebody’s misspelling of “frivol”.
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