[ˈfɔɪbl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character
(e.g: they have to tolerate each other's little foibles)

- the part of a sword blade from the middle to the point


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘feeble’): from obsolete French, in Old French fieble (see feeble). Both noun senses also formerly occurred as senses of the word feeble and all date from the 17th century