Definition of "frow" in English

noun

1. A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.

   • 1846, Captain Butler, A Glimpse of the Frontier, and a Gallop through the Cape Colony, W. Harrison Ainsworth (editor), The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 1846, Part 2, page 466, […] on our way we stopped at several houses, our companions having numerous acquaintances among the young frows, to flirt with after their ungainly fashion. Cape Dutch is not the language for love.

2. (obsolete) A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman.

3. (obsolete) A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of froe (“cleaving tool”).

adjective

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Brittle; tender; crisp