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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1820, 1991
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†FRAMPLE, v., n. Also frammle.
I. v. To rumple, put in disorder, dishevel (Ayr. 1825 Jam.). Ppl.adj. frammled, confused, tangled. Hence frampler, a rowdy, quarrelsome person.Sc. 1820 Scott Monastery xxvii.:
A rude low-born frampler and wrangler.
II. n. A confused mass, a tangle (Ayr. 1880 Jam., 1900 E.D.D.), as of clothes or yarn (Ayr. 1811 W. Aiton Agric. Ayr. 691). Also adj. and adv. in comb. frimple-frample, in a confused, promiscuous or tangled manner (Sc. 1887 Jam.).em.Sc.(a) 1991 Kate Armstrong in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 110:
Thon frimple-frample watter rowin
frae Kenmore tae Dundee is cried the River Tay.
