| 释义 |
frip, v. rare.|frɪp|
[Of uncertain origin: used almost exclusively by W. Somerset Maugham and perh. his invention or related to dial. frap ‘to quarrel, dispute’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).]
intr. Esp. of couples: to quarrel or bicker.
1921W. S. Maugham Circle ii. 38 It has struck me that whenever they started fripping you took a malicious pleasure in goading them on. 1936― Cosmopolitans 279 It was notorious among their friends that the couple did not get on. They had the distressing habit of fripping in public. Ibid. 287 Though Thomas nags me and makes scenes and we frip and get on one another's nerves, he loves me. 1966‘A. Gilbert’ Looking Glass Murder iv. 69 Not that I ever heard them frip, they didn't even argue. |