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frow

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/fɹaʊ/
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/fɹaʊ/ · /fɹəʊ/(UK) · /fɹoʊ/(US)

Definition of frow

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.
    “Mrs. Frances, a Frow, Daughter to Vanlock”
    “1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we stopped at several houses, our companions having numerous acquaintances among the young frows, to flirt with after their ungainly fashion. Cape Dutch is not the language for love.”
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noun

  1. A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.
    “Mrs. Frances, a Frow, Daughter to Vanlock”
    “1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we stopped at several houses, our companions having numerous acquaintances among the young frows, to flirt with after their ungainly fashion. Cape Dutch is not the language for love.”
  2. (obsolete)A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman.
  3. (obsolete)A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character.
  4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of froe (“cleaving tool”).

adj

  1. (dialectal)Brittle; tender; crisp
    “that which grows in gravel is subject to be frow, as they term it , and brittle”

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch vrouwe (“lady”), from Old Dutch *frōwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ (“lady, mistress”), from Proto-Indo-European *prōw- (“right; judge, master”). Cognate with Dutch vrouw (“woman, wife,…

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From Middle Dutch vrouwe (“lady”), from Old Dutch *frōwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ (“lady, mistress”), from Proto-Indo-European *prōw- (“right; judge, master”). Cognate with Dutch vrouw (“woman, wife, lady, mistress”), Low German frouw, frauw (“woman, wife, lady”), German Frau (“woman, wife, lady”), Swedish fru, Icelandic freyja (“lady, mistress”, in compounds), Old English frōwe (“woman”), Old English frēa (“lord, master, husband”). Doublet of frau, vrou, and vrouw.

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