LekhoriLekhoriA quirk, idiosyncrasy, frailty, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.
Try to look past his foibles and see the friendly fellow underneath.
A weakness or failing of character.
Jesus is reverenced as the one man who has lived unspotted by the world, free from human foibles, able to redeem mankind by his example.
Part of a sword between the middle and the point, weaker than the forte.
Weak; feeble.
The good Fencing-maſters, in France eſpecially, when they preſent a Foyle or Fleuret to their Scholars, tell him it hath two Parts, one of which he calleth the Fort or ſtrong, and the other the Foyble or weak […]
1640–50, from Early Modern French foible (“feeble”) (contemporary French faible). Doublet of feeble.
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