It is indeed a slick, lovely word. Here's a usage I just found: "'...why, you are tempted to ask yourself whether these are not mere irresponsible childish fribbles...'
"'Fribble yourself,' murmured the gunroom steward the other side of the door...
"'...or weathercocks. But then you reflect that these same people circumnavigate the entire terraqueous globe, sometimes in trying circumstances, which argues a certain constancy.'" --Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 259
It is indeed a slick, lovely word. Here's a usage I just found:
"'...why, you are tempted to ask yourself whether these are not mere irresponsible childish fribbles...'
"'Fribble yourself,' murmured the gunroom steward the other side of the door...
"'...or weathercocks. But then you reflect that these same people circumnavigate the entire terraqueous globe, sometimes in trying circumstances, which argues a certain constancy.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 259
Nice! I like it!
Beautiful word yarb. Composed of land and water.
Yes, the terraqueous globe!