Word of the Day: FRIMPLE-FRAMPLE

ETYMOLOGY
of obscure origin;
possibly from frample (to put in disorder)

EXAMPLE
“… This is the laund that bigs the winds; winds big the cloods; 
the cloods, the weit, the weit, the grun; an antrin steer 
o syle an rain. Thon
frimple-frample watter rowin 
frae Kenmore tae Dundee is cried the River Tay. 
…”

From: Wild Mushrooms: Writings
By Kate Armstrong, 1993

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