FRAIL
ADJECTIVES
1275 — FROUGH — FROW liable to break or give way; frail, brittle → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1460 — BRICKLE frail, weak → obs.
1529 — CASUAL subject to chance or accident; frail, uncertain, precarious → obs.
1567 — SILLY of persons or animals: weak, feeble, frail → obs.
1576 — CRAZY frail, infirm, weak, sickly → obs.
1583 — CRAZY liable to break or fall to pieces; frail
1795 — WANKLY frail, weak, feeble, delicate, shaky from weakness
1825 — FAIL in a frail state of health → obs.
1825 — TEARY frail, weak, delicate
1862 — PINDLING frail, weak, delicate, puny, sickly
1872 — DANSY — DAUNCY — DONCY frail, weak → Amer. dial.
1877 — TEMPERY — TEMPORY frail, insecure, weak
1877 — TEMPORARY frail, insecure, weak
1891 — PALCHED very frail and delicate in constitution, broken down in health
1897 — PALCH very frail and delicate in constitution; palsied
1897 — PALCHY very frail and delicate in constitution, broken down in health
1905 — UNFREELIE frail, feeble (Bk.)
1945 — SLIMSEY flimsy, frail → US Western sl. (Bk.)
1959 — PINDLY frail, weak, delicate, puny, sickly, ailing
NOUNS, PERSON
1340 — FEEBLE a weak, frail, or ineffectual person → obs.
1621 — CROWL a frail or person
1824 — PAWCHLE a frail old person
1825 — BEVAR a frail old person, one who trembles or totters
1883 — BIT OF SOAP a charming girl, though frail
..20C — PAPIYOT a frail person; a weakling
1929 — HECKAPURDES a poor, frail person
1930 — HATRACK a thin or frail person → US sl.