Etymology

Fripp

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Today it means: A surname from Old French. Full definition →

Old French frepe
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromfrepe“rag”
  2. English todayFripp

Perhaps from Old French frepe (“rag”), a metonymic occupational surname for a dealer in old clothes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.