Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
frenzy . - Cross; fretful.
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Examples
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That bull was riled plum to a franzy and that tin peddler was yaller as a punkin.
Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945
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But her hair wont curl all I can do with it, and shes so franzy about having it put i paper, and Ive such work as never was to make her stand and have it pinched with th irons.
II. Mr. Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom. Book IBoy and Girl 1917
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The darkness hid away all that shewed the "female franzy."
Delia Blanchflower Humphry Ward 1885
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For certainly denunication and argument became Diana -- all the more that she was no "female franzy" who must have all the best of the talk; she listened -- she evoked -- she drew on, and drew out.
The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885
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"But her hair won't curl all I can do with it, and she's so franzy about having it put i 'paper, and I've such work as never was to make her stand and have it pinched with th' irons."
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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But I daresay ye warna franzy, for ye look as if ye’d ne’er been angered i’ your life.
Adam Bede 2004
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"I hear story bout the rabbit and the fox -- all them old things -- Some times my mind franzy.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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