单词 | frip |
释义 | fripv. rare. intransitive. Esp. of couples: to quarrel or bicker. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in petty manner squabblea1616 tift1780 flicker1809 tiff1859 naggle1863 frip1921 1921 W. S. Maugham Circle ii. 38 It has struck me that whenever they started fripping you took a malicious pleasure in goading them on. 1936 W. S. Maugham Cosmopolitans 279 It was notorious among their friends that the couple did not get on. They had the distressing habit of fripping in public. 1936 W. S. Maugham Cosmopolitans 287 Though Thomas nags me and makes scenes and we frip and get on one another's nerves, he loves me. 1966 ‘A. Gilbert’ Looking Glass Murder iv. 69 Not that I ever heard them frip, they didn't even argue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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