Obs. [a. Du. † vrouwken (Kilian), dim. of vrouw: see FROW and -KIN.] A little Dutch woman; a Dutch child.
1603. Dekker, Wonderf. Yeare, D iv b. Death, (who hath more authoritie there than all the seauen Electors, and to shew him that there were other Low-countrey besides his owne) takes a little Frokin (one of my Dutch runnawayes children) and sends her packing, into those Netherlands shee departed.
1620. Middleton, Courtly Masque, Wks. (Bullen), VII. 169. You, blue-ey’d frokin, looks like fire and brimstone.
1738. Common Sense (1739), II. 58. My Neighbours learn nothing but to be so proud they won’t darn their own Linnen, and all their Talk is of nothing but Mantelets, Frokins, Farinelli, and London Midwives.
