v. dial. [Onomatopœic; cf. crab and fret, fratch, etc.] trans. To harass, worry.
1848. Mrs. Gaskell, M. Barton, iv. (1882), 7/2. I was very frabbit with him. Ibid. (1853), Ruth, III. xii. 298. I was not kind to you. I frabbed you, and plagued you from the first, my lamb!
1865. H. Brierley, Irkdale, I. 34.
| When aw’m thinkin what toylin and frabbin ther needs | |
| Through this wo’ld to get dacently poo’d, | |
| It melts into pastime, does th’ hardest o’ wark, | |
| If it’s helped wi’ a mug o’ whoam-brewed. |
