rare. Also fripp-. [Fr. friponnerie, f. fripon (see prec.).] Roguery.
1708. trans. Petronius Arbiter, Key, 1. Associates in all sorts of Friponeries and Debocheries.
1747. Walpole, Let. H. Mann, 26 June, Lett. 1857, II. 90. The shortest way to prevent any fripponnerie.
1818. R. Peters, in J. Jay’s Corr. & Publ. Papers (1893), IV. 424. Most of the articles went through my hands … and a more complete piece of fripponerie never was seen.
