frab, v. dial.
(fræb)
[Onomatopœic; cf. crab and fret, fratch, etc.]
trans. To harass, worry.
| 1848 Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton iv. (1882) 7/2, I was very frabbit with him. 1853 ― Ruth III. xii. 298, I was not kind to you. I frabbed you, and plagued you from the first. 1865 B. Brierley Irkdale I. 34 What toylin an' frabbin ther needs Through this woald to get decently poo'd. |