a. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 6–7 frampold, frompall, 7 frampald, -pard, frompered, frampel(l, -ple, -pole, -poll, -pull, (phrampell), 7, 9 hist. frampal(l, 7, 9 dial. frampled. [Of obscure origin; it is uncertain which of the many divergent forms is the earliest; formation on fram, FROM + POLL head, would suit sense 2. Cf. frommard = FROMWARD, FROWARD; also FRUMP, and Sc. frample ‘to put in disorder.’]
1. Sour-tempered, cross, disagreeable, peevish.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., II. ii. 94. She leads a very frampold life with him.
c. 1600. Day, Begg. Bednall Gr., II. ii. (1881), 37. Y. Str. I think the fellow’s frompall:—I ask thee where my Cloak is.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. x. 539. If a Priest were so frampoll, I say, as to refuse to baptize a poore infant in that case, shall not the King compell him by force; and punishment, and terrour of his Lawes?
1633. B. Jonson, Tale Tub, II. iv. I pray thee, grow not fram-pull now.
1674. N. Fairfax, A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, To Rdr. An ill will’d and frampled waspishness has broken forth.
1688. Bunyan, Solomon’s Temple Spiritualized, xlix. 9. Babes, you know, have not only babish stomacks, but also babish tricks, and must be dealt withal as Babes; their Childish talk and frompered Carriages must be born withal.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Frampled, cross; ill-humoured.
2. Of a horse: Fiery, mettlesome, spirited.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 14. For this floure of age having no forecast of thrift, but set altogither upon spending, and given to delights and pleasures, winseth and flingeth out like a skittish and frampold horse, in such sort that it had need of a sharpe bit and short curb.
1611. Middleton & Dekker, Roaring Girle, D.’s Wks. 1873, III. 170. Lax. Coachman. Coach. A non sir. Lax. Are we fitted with good phrampell iades.
1823. Scott, Peveril, xxxii. The two ‘frampal jades’ (to use the term of the period).
[1876. Whitby Gloss., Frample, v., to paw on the ground, as a horse when kept standing in one place.]
