Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A loud harsh sound; the report of something bursting; crash.
  • noun A strong sweet scent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.
  • noun Obs. & Illegitimate. A strong or sweet scent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete, proscribed A strong or sweet scent; fragrance.
  • noun A loud and sudden sound; the report of anything bursting; a crash.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

By confusion with fragrant.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin, a breaking to pieces, from frangere ("to break").

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  • Eat lots of fruitcake and I’ll wager

    The aftereffects will be major.

    They’ll shortly erupt

    Unplanned and abrupt

    In a way that is doubly a fragor.

    November 22, 2017