Meanings
adjectivefroppish (comparative more froppish, superlative most froppish)
comparative more froppish · superlative most froppish
- obsoletepeevish; froward
[H]is Enemies […] had still the same Power, and the same Malice, and a froppish Kind of Insolence, that delighted to deprive him of any Thing that pleased him, and manifestly pleased itself in vexing him.
a. 1674, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, volume 1, page 510, published 1759
Origin
Compare frap, frape, and see -ish.
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