Basically, a Fribble is an item (any object) that has been lost. If you lose an item, it becomes a fribble. If you find it again later on, it stays a fribble for ever. This word is most famously used in the statement 'Where's my Fribble'?

I live in Western MA. In the 1950s we use to get the Awful Awful at Friendly's.

In the book "Mr. Crumb's Secret," the fribble mouse's mystery revolves around its ability to communicate with Mr. Crumb through squeaks and gestures. The mystery leads Mr. Crumb to uncover the mouse's past life and how it was connected to an important event in Mr. Crumb's own life.

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coquetting, dallying, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, folly, fribble, frippery, frivolousness, fun, gaiety, game, giddiness, jest, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, nonsense, play, puerility, shallowness, sport, superficiality, toying, trifling, triviality, volatility, whimsicality, whimsy

The cast of Love and a Whirlwind - 1922 includes: Mabel Archdale as Aunt Fribble Agnes Brantford as Mary Clive Brook as Grifftih Daisy Campbell as Lady Vychen Reginald Fox as John Hir Frank Goldsmith as Oswald Marjorie Hume as Dorinda Saurin