froppish
English edit
Etymology edit
Compare frap, frape, and see -ish.
Adjective edit
froppish (comparative more froppish, superlative most froppish)
- (obsolete) peevish; froward
- a. 1674, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon, volume 1, page 510, published 1759
- [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