tribble

/ˈtɹɪbl̩/

Etymology

Unknown. The Century Dictionary suggests possibly a corruption of cribble (“sieve”).

tribble means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 81 out of 100.

name

A surname.“Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.””

A horizontal frame with wires stretched across it for drying paper.
A fictional alien creature in Star Trek, a fast-breeding, cooing ball of fur.“Scales have proliferated like tribbles in quadra-triticale: just intonations, equal temperaments, scales based on overtones, scales generated from a single interval or pair of intervals, scales without octaves, scales arising from arcane mathematical formulas, scales that reflect cosmological or religious structures, scales that "come from the heart."”