frape
See also: frapė
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɹeɪp/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Etymology 1
Compare frap.
Noun
frape (plural frapes)
- (obsolete) A crowd, a mob.[1]
- 1698, Edward Ward, Ecclesia and Factio:
- Then, by their own Corrupted Whimſies led,<be>Where the Frape meet, and common Ills are bred;
There hear the Church, from whence they came, Lampoon’d,
References
- ^ “frape”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
Noun
frape (countable and uncountable, plural frapes)
- (Internet slang, dated) An act of using another person's Facebook account to post derogatory messages.
Verb
frape (third-person singular simple present frapes, present participle fraping, simple past and past participle fraped)
- (Internet slang, dated) To hijack, and meddle with, someone's Facebook account while it is unattended.
Derived terms
Anagrams
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɣape/
Verb
frape
- To hit
Middle English
Noun
frape (plural frapes)
- crowd
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)