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frooder

frooder is the comparative form of frood.

Meaning of frood

Adjective

frood (comparative frooder or more frood, superlative froodest or most frood)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) Shrewd; sagacious; wary; cautious.
    • To the north of the Airfield the Rabbit Hills still retain heathland vegetation on the sandy soils and are probably the site of the 'frood' warren mentioned in an old survey, being at the time an important source of food.1973, Stanley Price, George Ruffhead, Newton-on-Ouse Local History Group, Three Yorkshire villages
    Synonyms:
    wise, wily

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Questions about frooder

What is frooder the comparative form of?
Frooder is the comparative form of frood.

Words near frooder in the dictionary

  1. frontwoman
  2. frontwomen
  3. froo-froo
  4. froo-froos
  5. frood
  6. frooder
  7. froodest
  8. froodite
  9. froodites
  10. froofiness
  11. froofroo

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