† frumberdlingn.
Obsolete.
A youth.
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frumberdlingc1000
young manOE
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c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 171/22 Pube tenus, frumbyrdling.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 41 He frumberdlinges binimeð unðeawes and gode techeð.
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