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verb

Definition of fribblesnext
present tense third-person singular of fribble
as in plays
to spend time in aimless activity somehow, he managed to spend the whole morning fribbling instead of doing his assigned work

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fribbles

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noun

plural of fribble
as in two bits

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fribbles
  1. bunk
  2. nonsense
  3. claptrap
  4. rot
  5. straw
  6. trash
  7. drivel
Noun
  • Now everybody’s chilling, getting in their bus bunk by 11:00 p.m.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The room and bunks are decorated in neutrals with pops of the aforementioned moody blue-gray color.
    Claire Hoppe, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2024
Definition of bunk
Noun
  • There is no nonsense in Ron Norsworthy’s gaze or tone.
    Essence, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
  • And yeah, some of the items on his list are utter nonsense.
    Eric Miquelon, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of nonsense
Noun
  • Is there a remedy for claptrap like the BMJ article?
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • Mostly Rivas gets rid of distracting racist, sexist or classist claptrap in the script, annoyances that have nothing to do with its plot.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2024
Definition of claptrap
Noun
  • The Apprentice suggests that Cohn hastened whatever rot was already present in his protégé, but its early scenes portray the opposite—that Trump, at his core, was simply naive.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • The material resists rust and rot, unlike metal or wood.
    Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2024
Definition of rot
Noun
  • Exhale through your lips, with them positioned as if they were pursed around a straw.
    Michael Menna, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This reusable straw filters 99.99 percent of bacteria and 99.9 percent of parasites from drinking water.
    Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of straw
Noun
  • The next city holiday to affect trash pickup in Louisville is Thanksgiving.
    John Tufts, The Courier-Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
  • One resident showed a reporter a photo of a trash fire taken earlier in the week in the building.
    Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of trash
Noun
  • Works like that one tend to be seen as religious experiences or spiritualist drivel.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Not even Dunst could elevate this slapdash slice of man-child drivel. 33.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Definition of drivel
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