Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

frab

/fɹæb/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: frab
IPA: /fɹæb/

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To scold, nag, or harass.

British usage; Archaic

Example Sentences

"Dunna think we'll sit siking and frabbing, because hur's took up with that dainty doll"
""I did not make him as happy as I might ha' done," murmured she, in a low, sad voice of self-reproach. "Th' accident gave a jar to my temper it's never got the better of; and now he's gone where he can never know how I grieve for having frabbed him as I did.""
"Oh! I can nearly say it all off by heart, for many a time when I am frabbed by bad debts, or Osborne's bills, or moidered with accounts, I turn the ledger wrong way up, and smoke a pipe over it, while I read those pieces out of the review which speak about you, lad!'"

Usage

British usage
Archaic

Inflected Forms

frabs (present, singular) frabbing (participle, present) frabbed (participle, past) frabbed (past)

Questions

How do you pronounce frab?: The recorded pronunciation is /fɹæb/.
What does frab mean?: To scold, nag, or harass.

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