1. a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character: "they have to tolerate each other's little foibles"
2. the weaker part of a sword blade, from the middle to the point.
Word Originlate 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.
