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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: act frivolously [syn: frivol, trifle]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (-oled or -olled; -oling or frivolling) Etymology: back-formation from frivolous Date: 1866 to act frivolously ; trifle • frivoler or frivoller noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (frivolled, frivolling; US frivoled, frivoling) 1 intr. be a trifler; trifle. 2 tr. (foll. by away) spend (money or time) foolishly. Etymology: back-form. f. FRIVOLOUS

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Frivol Friv"ol, v. i. To act frivolously; to trifle. --Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er, Friv"ol*ler, n. [All Colloq.]