| 单词 |
frippet |
| 释义 |
frippet slang.|ˈfrɪpɪt| [Origin unknown.] A frivolous or showy young woman.
1908D. H. Lawrence Let. 15 May (1962) I. 11 The girl will have a soul—she will not be a frippet. 1927Blackw. Mag. May 673/2 ‘Frippets—three in number,’ was the..diagnosis. 1933W. Chetham Strode Sometimes Even Now iii. ii. 89 I'll invite him—and he can bring all his ‘lovelys’ and ‘frippets’ with him. 1945E. Taylor At Mrs. Lippincote's xxiii. 196 ‘Mistress!’ he thought... It was like the swine of a man to use such a word for what he and Edwards would have called a bit of a frippet. 1960W. Sheed Middle Class Education (1961) 50 Did you have a rewarding life experience last night with that rather enticing bit of frippet? 1971D. Clark Sick to Death vi. 123 Quite a nice bit of frippet. But too young for me. I like a mature woman. |

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