Lexicographical Neighbors of Froughy
Literary usage of Froughy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"froughy butter" is rancid butter. This word is in common use in many parts of
New England. It is doubtless a corruption of ..."
2. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837)
"... me quite froughy and brash to what I was, so that I should take two good blows
of my fist to bring down a beef-cretur; ..."
3. Murray's System of English Grammar: Improved, and Adapted to the Present by Lindley Murray, Enoch Pond (1835)
"To FALL, for to fell ; as, ' You fall this tree, and I will fall that.' DROUTH,
for drought. froughy, for rancid, fetid, 8tc. ..."
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