10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «FROUGHY»
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Dictionary of Americanisms: A glossary of words and phrases, ...
fv , , FROUGHY \ trough is provincial in the north of England, and means anything
loose, spongy, or easily broken ; often applied to wood, as brittle is to mineral
substances. — Brockett's Glossary. 'Froughy butter,' is rancid butter. The latter of ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1848
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Dictionary of Americanisms, 2nd ed. enlarged
Froughy. Frough is provincial in the north of England, and means any thing loose,
spongy, or easily broken ; often applied to wood, as " brittle " is to mineral
substances. — Brockett's Glossary. " Froughy butter " is rancid butter. This word is
in ...
John Russell Bartlett, 1859
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Yks. Froughy, unscasoned oake, BEST Rur. Emn. (1641) 3a. (2) thIid. (\V.P.ltl.) (3)
Hrt. Such an ash . . . grows flowy, short and spongy, ELLts filed. llrlsb. (1750- V“. ii
. (4) l\'th [Oft fair foullis ar fundin faynt, and als french, R. Coil)e'ar (e. 1480) 23 ...
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English Language Word Builder
... FLANGER FLAPPER FLASKET FLAUNCH FLINGER FLOPPER FLUBBER
FLUNKER FLUTIST FORPINE FOULDER FRABBIT FRAILLY FRANGER
FRAPPEE FRIGGER FRIPPERy FRONTES FROTHERy FROUGHY* FROUNCE
FRUMPLE ...
... made me quite froughy and brash to what I was, so that I should take two good
blows of my fist to bring down a beef-cretur ; which doosn't ought to be, when a
man 's only sixty. Now, you see, as I can't go to get in my debits and plunder from
...
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, 1837
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A Vocabulary; Or, Collection of Words and Phrases: Which ...
Frough and Froughy. The latter of these words is in very common use in many
parts of New England ; but I do not find it in the English glossaries. It is doubtless
a corruption of Frough, which is sometimes used here, and which is provincial in
...
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Murray's system of English grammar: improved, and adapted to ...
Froughy, for rancid, fetid, &c. Guardeen, for guardian. Guess, for suppose,
believe, think. We should never guess about things which we well know. Had
rather, for should or would rather ; as, 'I had rather go.' Had go is a singular
combination.
Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond, 1835
... 's Anthony Spanker Pendleton Pokehorn, but he always shorts it, — ' Son-in-
law Spanker P. Pokehorn, I 'll tell you what it is, — I guess I 'm getting ould now,
and more than that, I 've a desp'ut ugly ague, what has made me quite froughy ...
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Virginia Literary Museum and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, &c
How's your/ocfc?" perhaps from Anglo Saxon, folc, family. Frough ov Froiv, "brittle
, loose, spungy" — also froughy, This word is used by Evelyn. " That f timbei
Jwbich grows in gravel is subject to be /row (us they term it, and brittle." It is now
not ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
[Fr] frou-frou frSS'frf/o, n the rustling of silk; elaborate trimmings, eg frills; fussy
decoration. [Fr] froughy. Same as frowy frounc^ frowns, (obs) vt to plait; to curl; to
wrinkle up. — vi to wrinkle; to frown. — n a wrinkle, plait or curl; affected ornament
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