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单词 froppish
释义

froppishadj.

Forms: Also fropish.
Etymology: ? < *frop, variant of frap v. + -ish suffix1.
Obsolete.
Froward, fretful, peevish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [adjective]
protervec1384
teethya1500
peevishc1530
protervous1547
pettish1552
tatter1579
fretting1587
teeny1594
frampold1599
treaf1601
fretful1603
teety1621
frappish1631
froppish1659
huffy1680
toothy1691
peenging1724
fractious1725
crossish1740
huffish1755
petulant1755
refractious1761
pouty1799
pensy1803
fudgy1819
twiney1824
rammista1838
fretty1844
petful1852
patchy1862
fretsome1870
grizzly1900
anfractuous1923
1659 J. Alleine in Life (1838) Let. i. 140 As a man would give a thing to a froppish child.
1709 Brit. Apollo 16–21 Dec. A fropish, froward..Perverse Wife.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxvii. 258 So, once, he was as froppish as a child, on my calling him the man.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 138 I was a giddy headed girl, too proud and froppish to take up with my sister's leavings.

Derivatives

ˈfroppishness n. Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > peevishness > [noun]
crabbingc1450
protervitya1527
peevishness1561
pettishness1603
fretfulness1615
huffiness1678
froppishness1688
petulancy1712
fractiousness1727
crossness1740
petulance1785
bile1836
huffishness1841
biliousness1856
pettedness1860
strop1970
1688 S. Penton Guardian's Instr. 75 Whenever you find the Child in an Extravagant fit of Froppishness and Anger.
1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison (ed. 7) V. 112 If my Lord will ask pardon for his froppishness, as we say of children.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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