Fribble vs Friable - What's the difference?
fribble | friable |
To waste or fritter.
To behave in a frivolous way.
*
To totter.
A trifling action.
A trifler.
A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop.
* Thackeray
Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
* 1977 , (Angela Carter), The Passion of New Eve :
* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 1020:
(of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
(of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
As adjectives the difference between fribble and friable
is that fribble is of no or little importance, frivolous while friable is easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.As a verb fribble
is to waste or fritter.As a noun fribble
is a trifling action.fribble
English
Verb
(fribbl)Noun
(en noun)- A pert fribble of a peer.
friable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
- This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
- April 1987 , Old-House Journal
- It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.