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fribble away

/frib-uhl/US // ˈfrɪb əl //UK // (ˈfrɪbəl) //

乱弹一通,乱弹琴,乱写乱画,乱写一通

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    frib·bled, frib·bling.

    • : to act in a foolish or frivolous manner; trifle.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    frib·bled, frib·bling.

    • : to waste foolishly: He fribbled away one opportunity after another.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a foolish or frivolous person; trifler.
    • : anything trifling or frivolous.
    • : frivolousness.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : frivolous; foolish; trifling.

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Examples

  • Somehow, she found it difficult to imagine a friendship between Godfrey and this little fribble of a woman.

  • Nor can such a person be a mere fribble; nor can any loose hanger-on of fashion imagine he may assume the character.

  • And so he became a priest, a fribble, and a coxcomb, but a man of truth.

  • But I might say that she is in fulness a woman—not a fribble, or one of those pick-me-up-and-carry-me women.

  • He ought to have been taken about the country in order to show the world the true meaning of a fribble and a beau.