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单词 frough
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froughfrowadj.

Forms: Middle English frouh, Middle English frouȝ, Middle English frogh, Middle English, 1500s, 1800s Scottish freuch, (1500s frewch, 1700s freugh), Middle English, 1600s– frow, 1700s frowe, Middle English, 1600s– frough.
Etymology: Of obscure origin: the forms point back to Old English *fróh , or possibly *þróh ; a word of the latter form is represented by þrógum ‘rancidis’, þrón ‘rancida’ (Napier OE. Gll. vii. 193, 210); for the meaning compare froughy adj.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. Liable to break or give way, not to be depended on, frail, brittle. literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective] > brittle or fragile
bricklec1225
froughc1275
brisel1303
brocklec1315
brittlea1382
fraila1382
brotelc1384
frangiblec1440
frushing1488
bruckle1513
brash1566
breakable1570
weak1581
glassya1591
brake1600
frushy1610
fragilea1616
kexy1641
brickly1670
cracky1725
fractile1727
frush1802
slattery1829
crackable1862
snappable1866
smashable1884
spaulty1895
c1275 Luue Ron 44 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 94 Hit is fals and mereuh and frouh.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 2305 Þoghe þe prest be fals or frow.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 671 Ek thike ysowe is frough [L. sectilis] And rare ysowe is heded grete & tough.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 185 in Shorter Poems (1967) 20 Quha suld haif fyrm esperans in this? Quhilk is allace sa freuch and variant?
1568 Bannatyne Poems (1770) 185 This warld is verry frewch.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 525 Oft fair foullis ar fundin faynt, and als freuch.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 18 Timber..which grows in Gravel is subject to be Frow (as they term it) and brittle.
1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 28 Frough, loose, spungy: Frough wood, brittle.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 37 The arms of an ash-tree are commonly put in if they be not too frowe.
1785 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth 5 in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. The swingle-trees flew in flinders, as gin they had been as freugh as kail-castacks.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Frough-wood, brittle wood.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Frough, loose, spungy, easily broken.
2. Crisp or ‘short’ to the taste.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > strong-tasting
strongeOE
stithc1000
violenta1398
tartc1405
froughc1420
high?c1430
lecherous1474
strong1588
brusque1601
valiant1607
pertish1635
haut-goût1645
full-flavoured1736
lively1770
gamey1820
ory1854
zestful?1855
robust1873
tangy1875
stewy1895
the world > food and drink > food > consistency of food > [adjective] > friable
froughc1420
short1648
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 662 To make hem frough, kitte of the bladys longe.
3. Scottish. (See quot. 1808-80)
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1808–80 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Freuch..2. dry; applied to corn, that has recovered from the effects of rain in the time of harvest.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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