v. Obs. [Cf. FRAP v. and OF. frapillier to be indignant, murmur.] intr. To dispute, wrangle, bluster.
a. 1595. Kelley, in Ashm., Theatr. Chem. (1652), 324.
| You know the coullers black brown bay and dapple, | |
| Controwle you once then you begin to fraple, | |
| Swearing and saying, what a fellow is this? | |
| Yet still you worke but ever worke amisse. |
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XXVIII. iv. 342. Frapling one against another pro and contrà.
Hence † Frapling vbl. sb., † Frapling ppl. a. Also Frapler sb. arch., a blusterer, bully.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., IV. iii. Thou art rude, debauch’d, impudent, coarse, unpolish’d, a frapler, and base.
1600. O. E., Repl. to Libel, I. ii. 50. This frapling frier.
1600. Holland, Livy, VIII. xxiii. (1609), 297. What frapling is here to no purpose.
| Ibid. (1603), Plutarch’s Mor., 47. | |
| Idomeneus in frappling prompt, | |
| What mean’st thou thus to frate? |
1609. Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 338. Euen like a vaine & frapling surueyor who taking vpon him to make a terrar of some mens lands discribes the scituation, & discourses of the quality of the grounds and medowes that lie about it, but of the contents of the land it selfe, hee saies nothing.
1863. Sala, Capt. Dangerous, I. ii. 39–40. See that the knave be stripped of his livery, and turned out of the house this moment, for robbing my Grandson, and taking him on a Sabbath morning to taverns, among grooms, and porters, and fraplers, and bullies.
