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frow
/fɹaʊ/
noun 4adj 1
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2VERB + FROW
subject
FROW + NOUN
daughter, term, vanlock
Definitions
noun
1
A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.
Mrs. Frances, a Frow, Daughter to Vanlock
1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we stopped at several houses, our companions having numerous acquaintances among the young frows, to flirt with after their ungainly fashion. Cape Dutch is not the language for love.
2
A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman.
3
A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character.
noun
1
Alternative spelling of froe (“cleaving tool”).
adj
1
Brittle; tender; crisp
that which grows in gravel is subject to be frow, as they term it , and brittle
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Mrs. Frances, a Frow, Daughter to Vanlock
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1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we
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that which grows in gravel is subject to be frow, as they term it , and brittle
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