frape
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɹeɪp/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Etymology 1
Compare frap.
Noun
frape (plural frapes)
- (obsolete) A crowd, a mob.[1]
- 1698, Edward Ward, Ecclesia and Factio:
- Then, by their own Corrupted Whimſies led,<be>Where the Frape meet, and common Ills are bred;
There hear the Church, from whence they came, Lampoon’d,
References
- “frape”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Noun
frape (countable and uncountable, plural frapes)
Verb
frape (third-person singular simple present frapes, present participle fraping, simple past and past participle fraped)
Derived terms
Haitian Creole
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɣape/
Middle English
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