pribbles and prabbles

noun

Ramblings; nonsense.

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Meanings

nounpribbles and prabbles pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyRamblings; nonsense.

    Euan. And giuen to Fornications, and to Tauernes, and Sacke, and Wine, and Metheglins, and to drinkings and ſwearings, and ſtarings? Pribles and prables? Fal. Well, I am your Theame: you haue the ſtart of me, I am deiected.

    c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 60, column 1, lines 156–160
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