" The children fribbled about us while we talked away the afternoon.

The days are gone when a girl would so much as look at such a fribble as Sir Plume.

Foppington, etc. Foppington in Vanbrugh's "Relapse," Tattle in Congreve's "Love for Love," Backbite in Sheridan's "School for Scandal," Acres in "The Rivals" by the same author, and Fribble in Garrick's "Miss in her Teens.