† frokinn.
Obsolete.
A little Dutch woman; a Dutch child.
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1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. D4v A little Frokin (one of my Dutch runnawayes children).
1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. D2 You blew-eyde Frokin, lookes 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.
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