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.
Take your pick from 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
Mabel Archdale has: Played Alicia Snitterfield in "The God in the Garden" in 1921. Played Mary Mortimer in "The Sword of Fate" in 1921. Played Sylvia Polesworthy in "A Dear Fool" in 1921. Played Aunt Fribble in "Love and a Whirlwind" in 1922. Played Mrs. Milton in "The Wheels of Chance" in 1922.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern FRIB---. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter F and 2nd letter R and 3rd letter I and 4th letter B. In alphabetical order, they are: fribble
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern FRI-B--. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter F and 2nd letter R and 3rd letter I and 5th letter B. In alphabetical order, they are: friable fribble frisbee
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 11 words with the pattern F-I---E. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter F and 3rd letter I and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: faience failure friable friande fribble frigate frijole frisbee frisure friture frizzle
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 9 words with the pattern F---BL-. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter F and 5th letter B and 6th letter L. In alphabetical order, they are: fadable finable fixable flyable friable fribble fryable fusible fusibly
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern FR-B--E. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter F and 2nd letter R and 4th letter B and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: fribble
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern F--BB-E. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter F and 4th letter B and 5th letter B and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: fribble
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern F--B-LE. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter F and 4th letter B and 6th letter L and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: fribble