Lexicographical Neighbors of Fripon
Literary usage of Fripon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and by William Tooke, William Beloe, Robert Nares (1798)
"... on finit par etre fripon." People begin dupes, and end rogue? And that on
felf-love: " Nul n'eft content de fa fortune, ni mecontent de fon ..."
2. Origin of Language and Myths by Morgan Peter Kavanagh (1871)
"This etymology is the more valuable as the origin of fripon has been hitherto
wholly unknown. Thus in De Roquefort I find the following under fripon, ..."
3. The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English Dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1845)
"ROGUISH, adj. fripon, ne. She has a roguish eye, elle a l'œil fripon, malin. ...
The roguishness of his look, sou air— son regard—-fripon. ..."
4. Histoire de la Langue Français: études Sur Les Origines, L'étymologie, la by Emile Littré (1863)
"Tout cela est décisif; et Génin en conclut que, dans l'acception présente de
fripon, on a un sens dérivé du primitif, attendu, dit-il, que, de convoiter la ..."
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