† ˈfrokin Obs.
[a. Du. † vrouwken (Kilian), dim. of vrouw: see frow and -kin.]
A little Dutch woman; a Dutch child.
| 1603 Dekker Wonderfull Yeare D iv b, A little Frokin (one of my Dutch runnawayes children). 1620 Middleton Courtly Masque Wks. (Bullen) VII. 169 You, blue-ey'd frokin, looks like fire and brimstone. 1738 Common Sense (1739) II. 58 My Neighbours learn nothing but to be so proud they won't darn their own Linnen, and all their Talk is of nothing but Mantelets, Frokins, Farinelli, and London Midwives. |