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[clove-pinks]

I am not going to add on any more comments to the last post I reblogged, which is already going all over the place with a vague theme of naughty language in the Georgian era—but @acrossthewavesoftime brought up 'fribble' as a word for an even more effeminate type of fop, after the character in David Garrick's 1747 farce, Miss in Her Teens.

And I immediately thought—FRIBBLE? THE ROLE PLAYED BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY HIMSELF in his own Royal Arctic Theatre??!

The first performance, a work by Garrick called Miss in Her Teens, was cheered loudly. It was widely agreed that Parry sustained the role of Fribble to perfection. Parry played down his triumph bashfully, 'considering that an example of cheerfulness ... was not the least part of my duty'

— Fergus Fleming, Barrow's Boys

See also: Clements Markham's The Arctic Navy List with complete list of Parry's theatrical roles.

[mishalogic]

FRIBBLE!

A frivolous or foolish person

A thing of no great improtance

"to use a little fire, a trifling obstacle"

Noun

Verb: fribbling

Unknown origin! ... word meanings

[theurbanrishi]

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आज़ादी…

पतंग को डोर से आज़ादी,

जंगल को मोर से,

पुलिस को चोर से,

रात को भोर से आज़ादी…

नाती को नानी से,

मछली को पानी से,

व्यापारी को हानि से,

अनपढ़ को ज्ञानी से,

राजा को रानी से आज़ादी…

कर्तव्यों से आज़ादी,

जिम्मेदारी से आज़ादी,

अनुशासन से आज़ादी,

प्रशासन से आज़ादी,

काम काज से आज़ादी,

राष्ट्रवाद से आज़ादी…

ये आज़ादी नही कामचोरी है,

ये चोरी फिर छिनाजोरी है…

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[thelaziestpiece]

You can call me Fribble

I learned a new word today.

fribble

PRONUNCIATION: (FRIB-uhl) 

MEANING: verb intr.: To act in a wasteful or frivolous manner. verb tr.: To fritter away. noun: A wasteful or frivolous person or thing.

ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps an alteration of frivol (to behave frivolously), from Latin frivolus (worthless). Earliest documented use: 1610.

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