The various suggestions to associate Sainte-Fripette with _fripier_ (dealer
in used goods of little value, or, metonymically, denomination of such
goods) or with _fripon_ (scoundrel, rogue) do not convince me, because the
regular feminine form of _fripier_ is _fripie\re_, whereas that of _fripon_
is _friponne_. So unless we can find a masc. _fripet_ (not known to me) of
which _fripette_ could be the regular fem., it seems that _fripette_ is
rather a diminuitive of _fripe_ ("food, dish", metonymically the money
which is paid for a dish or drink). Always assuming that it is not the more
or less distorted derivate of a proper name of presumably Germanic origins
(I have nothing special in mind, but you foreigners do strange things to
our names as I know from my own experience of having been called haute
frite, ho freddo, and hot Fritz).
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