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ˈframpold, 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.
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 94 She leads a very frampold life with him. c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. ii. ii. (1881) 37, I think the fellow's frompall:—I ask thee where my Cloak is. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. x. 539 If a Priest were so frampoll..as to refuse to baptize a poore infant in that case. 1633B. Jonson Tale Tub ii. iv, I pray thee, grow not fram pull now. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. To Rdr., An ill will'd and frampled waspishness. 1688Bunyan Solomon's Temple Spiritualized xlix. 9 Babes..have..babyish tricks..their childish talk and frompered carriage must be borne withal. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Frampled, cross, ill-humoured. 2. Of a horse: Fiery, mettlesome, spirited.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 14 Like a skittish and frampold horse. 1611Middleton & Dekker Roaring Girle D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 170 Coachman..are we fitted with good phrampell iades. 1823Scott Peveril xxxii, The two ‘frampal jades’ (to use the term of the period). [1876Whitby Gloss., Frample v., to paw on the ground, as a horse when kept standing in one place.] |