Cribble vs Fribble - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between cribble and fribble

is that cribble is a coarse sieve or screen while fribble is a trifling action.

is that cribble is to pass something through a sieve while fribble is to waste or fritter.

is that cribble is (obsolete) coarse while fribble is of no or little importance, frivolous.

(en noun)

A coarse sieve or screen.

Coarse flour or meal.

(Johnson)

(cribbl)

To pass something through a sieve.

(en adjective)

(obsolete) coarse

* Richard Huloet

The gardens, with digging for novelties, are turned over and over, because we will not eat common cribble bread.

(fribbl)

To waste or fritter.

To behave in a frivolous way.

To totter.

(en adjective)

Of no or little importance, frivolous.

(en noun)

A trifling action.

A trifler.

A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.

* Thackeray

A pert fribble of a peer.