Usually means: Minor weakness in someone's character.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. foible: Merriam-Webster
  2. foible: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foible: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foible: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foible: Vocabulary.com
  6. Foible, foible: Wordnik
  7. foible: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. foible: Wiktionary
  9. foible: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foible: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foible: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Foible, foible: Dictionary.com
  13. foible: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. foible: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Foible (fencing): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Foible: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. foible: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. foible: Rhymezone
  19. foible: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. foible: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Foible: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. foible: FreeDictionary.org
  23. foible: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. foible: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. foible: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. foible: Legal dictionary

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  1. foible: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foible: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. foible: Urban Dictionary

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  2. Foible: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foible)

▸ noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A quirk, idiosyncrasy, frailty, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.
▸ noun:  A weakness or failing of character.
▸ noun:  (fencing) Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Weak; feeble.

Similar:
mannerism, idiosyncrasy, ficklety, squiffiness, whimling, finicking, finnimbrun, frumpery, whimsy, feebling, more...

Types:
quirk, weakness, flaw, failing, weak point, more...

Adjectives:
human, little, common, own, personal, harmless, chief, particular, national, only, mere
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Similar:
mannerism, idiosyncrasy, ficklety, squiffiness, whimling, finicking, finnimbrun, frumpery, whimsy, feebling, more...

Types:
quirk, weakness, flaw, failing, weak point, more...

Adjectives:
human, little, common, own, personal, harmless, chief, particular, national, only, mere



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