frote
See also: froté
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /fɹəʊt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊt
Verb
editfrote (third-person singular simple present frotes, present participle froting, simple past and past participle froted)
- (obsolete) To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe.
- 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii, signature [L iiij], verso:
- Let a man ſweat once a weeke in a Hothouſe, and be well rubd and froted with a good plumpe juicie wench, and ſweet linnen, he ſhall ne’re ha’ the Poxe.
- 1577, Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes:
- She smelles, she kisseth, and her corps
She loves exceedingly; She tufts her heare , she frotes her face
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editAsturian
editVerb
editfrote
Old High German
editAdjective
editfrōte
- Alternative form of fruote, strong masculine nominative/accusative plural of fruot
Spanish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editfrote m (plural frotes)
- rub; rubbing
- Synonym: frotamiento
Etymology 2
editVerb
editfrote
- inflection of frotar:
Further reading
edit- “frote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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