What (who) is fribble - definition
![Jonathan Swift at the [[Deanery]] of St Patrick's, illus. from 1905 Temple Scott edition of ''Works''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jonathan Swift - Project Gutenberg eText 18250.jpg?width=200 "Jonathan Swift at the [[Deanery]] of St Patrick's, illus. from 1905 Temple Scott edition of ''Works''")
![St Patrick's Cathedral]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St. Patrick's Cathedral Swift bust.jpg?width=200 "St Patrick's Cathedral]]")
![[[Epitaph]] in [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]] near his burial site](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St. Patrick's Cathedral Swift epitaph.jpg?width=200 "[[Epitaph]] in [[St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin]] near his burial site")
![halfpennies]] (alloyed with brass) lie scattered at his feet. [[Cherub]]im award Swift a poet's laurel.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Swift works.png?width=200 "halfpennies]] (alloyed with brass) lie scattered at his feet. [[Cherub]]im award Swift a poet's laurel.")
![Swift's [[death mask]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Swiftdeathmask.jpg?width=200 "Swift's [[death mask]]")
You have twenty-four hours to get all your fribble out of my basement before I toss it into the street.
Wikipedia
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles.
His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".
