Meaning of briggle | Babel Free

Definitions

To potter around; friggle; fiddle.

US, dialectal, intransitive, rare

Examples

“Some of the boys called it “a h—l of a time.” Such “briggling about” was almost unpardonable.”

“I let him try his hand at life insurance, after he'd failed at about everything else. Well, in the course of three weeks of briggling, he landed one man for a thousand dollars;”

““Briggled all day,” is an entry found occasionally in Dad’s diary. Or, “Briggled around.” Usually it was in reference to the work he had done that day, but sometimes an entry indicated that one of us kids briggled. It meant that work was done on various jobs with no major accomplishment.”

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