fribbyadj.n.
/ˈfrɪbi/, U.S. /ˈfrɪbi/, Australian English /ˈfrɪbi/, New Zealand English /ˈfrɪbi/ Australian and New Zealand.
Applied to small short locks of wool. Also as n. (usually plural), such locks.
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1900 A. Hawkesworth Austral. Sheep & Wool 180 A fleece is said to be fribby when a great number of second cuts or fribs fall out when it is shaken or in the process of rolling.
1915 J. R. Macdonald N.Z. Sheepfarming xxvi. 69 When the fleece is placed on the table..the stained and fribby pieces should be taken off the edges.
1929 H. B. Smith Sheep & Wool Industry Austral. & N.Z. (ed. 3) 209 Fribby, short locky pieces of wool such as second cuts and small black yolky locks from crutch and under fore-legs of sheep.
1951 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 379 Fribby. Perhaps more a wool trade term than a station one. The yolky locks round the points taken off by the roller from a decently skirted fleece.
Derivatives
frib n. (usually plural) short wool pieces and second cuts.
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1900 [see main sense].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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