fripon

Borrowed from French fripon.

fripon c

1. rogue, rascal
   • 1843, Danske magazin, page 132

     ... at Kongen derfor skulde faae en Person uden Stand, uden Charakteer, en fripon^{[sic, meaning Fripon]} og Spion af Profession, og^[sic] som meer end eengang havde undveget Strikken; ...

     ... that the king should therefore get a person without position, without character, a rogue and spy by profession, who had more than once escaped the noose; ...

   • 1900, Oscar Levertin, Rococo Noveller

     Madame Ruhnkenia laa halvt paa sin gule Ottoman i halvt deshabillée^[sic] med en Fripon af en Sko skælmsk kiggende frem under Kjolens Folder.

     Madame Ruhnkenia half-lay on her yellow sofa in a state of intermediate undress, with a rascal of a shoe roguishly peeking out from the folds of the dress.

   • 2001 January 14, "Petrus von Thyssen", Jyllands-Posten

     Se, sådan taler, med grandezza, en hædersmand, og sådan sættes en radikal fripon på plads.

     See, thus an honest man speaks with grandezza, and thus is a radical rascal put in his/her place.

From Middle French friper and -on.

• IPA^(key): /fʁipɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

fripon m (plural fripons, feminine friponne)

1. rascal, rogue

fripon (feminine singular friponne, masculine plural fripons, feminine plural friponnes)

1. mischievous

• “fripon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).