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† ˈfraple, v. Obs.
[Cf. frap v. and OF. frapillier to be indignant, murmur.]
intr. To dispute, wrangle, bluster.
a1595Kelley in Ashm. Theatr. Chem. (1652) 324 Then you begin to fraple, Swearing and saying, what a fellow is this? 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxviii. iv. 342 Frapling one against another pro and contra.
Hence † ˈfrapling vbl. n., † ˈfrapling ppl. a. Also ˈfrapler n. arch., a blusterer, bully.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. iii, Thou art..a frapler, and base. 1600O. E. Repl. to Libel i. ii. 50 This frapling frier. 1600Holland Livy viii. xxiii. (1609) 297 What frapling is here to no purpose. 1603― Plutarch's Mor. 47 Idomeneus in frappling prompt, What mean'st thou thus to prate? 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 338 Like a vaine & frapling surueyor, who [etc.]. 1863Sala Capt. Dangerous I. ii. 40 Grooms, and porters, and fraplers, and bullies. |