frailish

I pledge him, therefore, in a puff, -- rather frailish kind of stuff,

Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry Various

Mrs. Vervain gave a frailish start from the chair, into which she had sunk, "Oh, do let us be off at once, then," she said; and when they stood on the landing-stairs of the hotel: "What gloomy things these gondolas are!" she added, while the gondolier with one foot on the gunwale of the boat received the ladies 'shawls, and then crooked his arm for them to rest a hand on in stepping aboard; "I wonder they don't paint them some cheerful color."

A Foregone Conclusion William Dean Howells 1878