Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An idle, dissolute fellow; a paramour or boon companion; a gay or dissolute person of either sex. See first extract under frank, adjective, 5.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow.
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- noun obsolete A
cheerful ,frivolous person, a silly man; a loose woman.
Etymologies
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Origin uncertain.
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Examples
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Hobbs tells the king that he is "a frank franion, a merry companion, and loves a wench well."
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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I am a gentleman, a courtier, and a merry frank franion. [
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
jaime_d commented on the word franion
From "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg" by Guy Davenport.
January 19, 2010
qms commented on the word franion
Might not be found a francker franion,/ of her leawd parts to make companion:
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, C.2, 37, 1-2
November 7, 2014
qms commented on the word franion
It's rhyme that will keep a man young,
For prose is a morose companion.
But what's even worse?
That strumpet free verse!
That chattering, frivolous franion.
November 7, 2014