frow

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch vrouwe (“lady”), from Old Dutch *frōwa, from Proto-West Germanic *frauwjā, from Proto-Germanic *frawjǭ (“lady, mistress”), from Proto-Indo-European *prōw- (“right; judge, master”). Cognate with Dutch vrouw (“woman, wife, lady, mistress”), Low German frouw, frauw (“woman, wife, lady”), German Frau (“woman, wife, lady”), Swedish fru, Icelandic freyja (“lady, mistress”, in compounds), Old English frōwe (“woman”), Old English frēa (“lord, master, husband”). Doublet of frau, vrou, and vrouw. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /fɹaʊ/ Rhymes: -aʊ ==== Noun ==== frow (plural frows) A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one. 1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we stopped at several houses, our companions having numerous acquaintances among the young frows, to flirt with after their ungainly fashion. Cape Dutch is not the language for love. (obsolete) A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman. (obsolete) A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character. === Etymology 2 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): (UK) /fɹəʊ/, (US) /fɹoʊ/ Rhymes: -əʊ ==== Noun ==== frow (plural frows) Alternative spelling of froe (“cleaving tool”). === Etymology 3 === From Middle English frow, frough, frogh, frouh, frouȝ (“brittle; tender; fickle; slack; loose”), cognate with Scots frooch, freuch (“dry and brittle”). Of obscure origin. Perhaps also related to Middle Dutch vro, vroo, Middle Low German vrô, German froh. ==== Adjective ==== frow (comparative more frow, superlative most frow) (now chiefly dialectal) Brittle; tender; crisp ===== Derived terms ===== frowish === Anagrams === rowf == Sranan Tongo == === Etymology === From Dutch vrouw. === Noun === frow woman Synonym: uma wife Synonym: wefi