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Meaning of frab | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
fɹæb

Definitions

To scold, nag, or harass.

UK, archaic, dialectal

Examples

“Dunna think we'll sit siking and frabbing, because hur's took up with that dainty doll”
“"I did not make him as happy as I might ha' done," murmured she, in a low, sad voice of self-reproach. "Th' accident gave a jar to my temper it's never got the better of; and now he's gone where he can never know how I grieve for having frabbed him as I did."”
“Oh! I can nearly say it all off by heart, for many a time when I am frabbed by bad debts, or Osborne's bills, or moidered with accounts, I turn the ledger wrong way up, and smoke a pipe over it, while I read those pieces out of the review which speak about you, lad!'”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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