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pribbles and prabbles en · NOUN
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) Ramblings; 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:
Relateds
prittle-prattle