Meaning of fripon | Babel Free

Definitions

rogue, rascal

common-gender

Examples

“... at Kongen derfor skulde faae en Person uden Stand, uden Charakteer, en fripon^([sic – meaning Fripon]) og Spion af Profession, og^([sic]) som meer end eengang havde undveget Strikken; ...”

... that the king should therefore get a person without position, without character, a rogue and spy by profession, who had more than once escaped the noose; ...

“Madame Ruhnkenia laa halvt paa sin gule Ottoman i halvt deshabillée^([sic]) med en Fripon af en Sko skælmsk kiggende frem under Kjolens Folder.”

Madame Ruhnkenia half-lay on her yellow sofa in a state of intermediate undress, with a rascal of a shoe roguishly peeking out from the folds of the dress.

“Se, sådan taler, med grandezza, en hædersmand, og sådan sættes en radikal fripon på plads.”

See, thus an honest man speaks with grandezza, and thus is a radical rascal put in his/her place.

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