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frab

/fɹæb/

frab verb: to scold, nag, or harass.

Verb

frab (third-person singular simple present frabs, present participle frabbing, simple past and past participle frabbed)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) To scold, nag, or harass.
    • Dunna think we'll sit siking and frabbing, because hur's took up with that dainty doll1827, Lee Gibbons, Owain Goch
    • "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."1848, [Elizabeth Gaskell], Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life. […] (Chapman and Hall’s Series of Original Works of Fiction, Biography, and General Literature), volume (please specify |volume=I or...

Forms of frab

third-person singular presentfrabs
present participlefrabbing
past participlefrabbed
pastfrabbed

Questions about frab

What does frab mean?
Frab means to scold, nag, or harass.
What part of speech is frab?
Frab is a verb.
How do you pronounce frab?
Frab is pronounced /fɹæb/.
What is the past tense of frab?
The past tense of frab is frabbed.

Words near frab in the dictionary

  1. Fr*nce
  2. Fr*nch
  3. fr.
  4. fra
  5. fra diavolo
  6. frab
  7. frabbed
  8. frabbing
  9. frabbit
  10. frabjous
  11. frabjously

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