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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