fribbling

Verb

fribble (third-person singular simple present fribbles, present participle fribbling, simple past and past participle fribbled)

1. To waste or fritter.
2. To behave in a frivolous way.
   • The parish districts--and especially their lady visitors--declared that they were neglected; the rector never got a quiet cup of tea in his own house, nor even a quiet placid moment; for the sounds of young people laughing and, as Mrs. Fretchett called it, "fribbling" upstairs would float down to...1897, Stanley John Weyman, “Archdeacon Hodden's Tribulation”, in For the Cause
3. To totter.

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