Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) to choke, to strangle, to spoil; usu. as frummagemed, choked, strangled, spoiled.

1648		Dekker Canters Dict. Eng. Villainies (9th edn) n.p.: Frummagem, Choaked.
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 49: Frummagem, Choakt.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Frummagem’d Choak’d.
1707		J. Shirley Triumph of Wit (5 edn).
1725		New Canting Dict. n.p.: frummagemm’d choaked, strangled, or hang’d.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 16: Shoaked [Choaked] – Frummagem’d.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1815		(con. 18C) W. Scott Guy Mannering (1999) 149: If I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands) Jean Baillie would have frummagem’d you.
1819		‘One of the Fancy’ Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress 21: There he lay, almost frummagem’d – every one said / ‘Twas all Dicky with GEORGY, his mug hung so dead.
1823		‘Jon Bee’ Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 83: Frammagem’d — hangd, or otherwise disposed of.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict. 14: Frummagem’d – choked or hang’d.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
1859		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 42: FRUMMAGEMMED, annihilated, strangled, garotted, or spoilt.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict. [as cit. 1859].
1873		Sl. Dict.