Word.ws English Dictionary

frippish

frippish adjective: gaudy, tawdry, showy in a cheap way.

Adjective

frippish (comparative more frippish, superlative most frippish)

  1. (obsolete) Gaudy, tawdry, showy in a cheap way.

Forms of frippish

comparativemore frippish
superlativemost frippish

Origin of frippish

From French friperie, via frippery + -ish.

Questions about frippish

What does frippish mean?
Frippish means gaudy, tawdry, showy in a cheap way.
What part of speech is frippish?
Frippish is an adjective.

Words near frippish in the dictionary

  1. Frippertronic
  2. Frippertronics
  3. frippery
  4. frippet
  5. frippets
  6. frippish
  7. Fripps
  8. Fris
  9. frisbee
  10. frisbee golf
  11. frisbeed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frippish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “frippish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/frippish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.