Frousty, adj. (common).—Stinking.
Frout, adj. (Winchester College).—Angry; vexed.
Frow (or Froe, or Vroe), subs. (old).—A woman; a wife; a mistress.
[From the Dutch.]
1607. Dekker, Westward Ho, Act V., Sc. 1. Eat with ’em as hungerly
as soldiers; drink as if we were froes.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew, V. Brush to your froe
and wheedle for crap, c. whip to your mistress and speak her fair
to give or lend you some Money.
1754. B. Martin, Eng. Dict. (2 ed.), s.v.
1789. Parker, Life’s Painter, p. 119 A flash of lightning next Bess
tipt each cull and frow.
Fruitful Vine, subs. phr. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms,
see Monosyllable.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v. Fruitful vine. A woman’s private
parts, i.e., that has flowers every month, and bears fruit in nine.
Frummagemed, adj. (old).—Choked; strangled; spoilt.
1671. R. Head, English Rogue, Pt. I., ch. v., 49 (1874). Frummagem,
Choakt.
1724. E. Coles, Eng. Dict. Frummigam, c. choaked.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Choaked, strangled, or hanged.
Cant.
1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, ch. xxviii. ‘If I had not helped you
with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would
have frummagem’d you, ye feckless do-little!’
1819. Moore, Tom Crib’s Memorial, p. 21. There he lay, almost
frummagem’d.
Frump, subs. (old).—1. A contemptuous speech or piece of conduct; a
sneer; a jest.
1553. Wilson, Art of Rhetorique, p. 137. (He) shall be able to
abashe a right worthie man, and make him at his witte’s ende,
through the sodaine quicke and vnlooked frumpe giuen.
1589. Greene, Menaphon, p. 45. For women’s paines are more pinching
if they be girded with a frumpe than if they be galled with a
mischiefe.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Bichiacchia, jestes, toyes,
frumps, flim-flam tales, etc.
1606. T. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sinnes, p. 44 (ed. Arber). The
courtiers gives you an open scoffe, ye clown a secret mock, the
cittizen yat dwels at your threshald, a ieery frump.
1630. Taylor, Works. But yet, me thinkes, he gives thee but a
frumpe, In telling how thee kist a wenches rumpe.
1662. Rump Songs, ‘Arsy-Varsy,’ etc., ii., 47. As a preface of
honor and not as a frump, First with a Sir reverence ushers the
Rump.
1668. Dryden, An Evening’s Love, Act IV. Sc. 3. Not to be
behindhand with you in your frumps, I give you back your purse of
gold.
2. (common).—A slattern; more commonly a prim old lady; the correlative
of fogey (q.v.). Fr., un graillon.
1831. J. R. Planché, Olympic Revels, Sc. i. Cheat, you stingy
frump! Who wants to cheat?
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I., p. 157. Get into the hands of
the other old frumps.
1857. Thackeray, Virginians, ch. xxxi. She is changed now, isn’t
she? What an old Gorgon it is! She is a great patroness of your
book-men, and when that old frump was young they actually made
verses about her.