frazzling

Updated: April 30, 2025

Of late his self-assurance had seemed to be fraying and frazzling away, along with those old-timey, full-bosomed shirts of which he had in times gone by been so tremendously proud. It was as though the passing of the one marked the passing of the other symbolic as you might say.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - The Escape of Mr. Trimm: His Plight and other Plights