Frained vs Frailed – What’s the difference?

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Frained vs Frailed - What's the difference?
As verbs the difference between frained and frailed is that frained is (frain) while frailed is (frail).

frained

English

Verb

(head)

  • (frain)


    • frain

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), .

    Verb

    (en verb )

  • (rare, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) to ask, inquire; demand.
  • * 1830 , Sir Walter Scott, The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, baronet :
    • I frained fast what was his name, Where that he came, from what country.
  • (rare, or, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) to question; to ask questions.
    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • (obsolete, botany) the , ash-tree.

    • Anagrams

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    frailed

    English

    Verb

    (head)

  • (frail)


    • frail

    English

    Adjective

    (er)

  • Easily broken; mentally or physically fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm.
  • Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.

    • Related terms

    * fractal
    * fraction
    * fractional
    * fracture
    * fragile
    * fragility
    * frailly
    * frailness
    * frailty

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins.
  • The quantity of raisins contained in a frail.
  • A rush for weaving baskets.
  • (dated, slang) A girl.
  • * 1931 , (Cab Calloway) / (Irving Mills), ‘Minnie the Moocher’:
    • She was the roughest, toughest frail , but Minnie had a heart as big as a whale.
  • * 1933 , , , edition 1, Book 2, Chapter XXII:
    • There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender’s bored: “Si … Si … Si,” a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 148:
    • ‘She’s pickin’ ’em tonight, right on the nose,’ he said. ‘That tall black-headed frail .’
  • * 1941 , Preston Sturges, ”, published in ”Five Screenplays , ISBN 0-520-05442-4, page 77:
    • Sullivan, the girl and the butler get to the ground. The girl wears a turtle-neck sweater, a cap slightly sideways, a torn coat, turned-up pants and sneakers.
    SULLIVAN Why don’t you go back with the car… You look about as much like a boy as .
    THE GIRL All right, they’ll think I’m your frail .

    References

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    Verb

    (en verb )

  • To play a stringed instrument, usually a banjo, by picking with the back of a fingernail.

    • Anagrams

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