Green’s Dictionary of Slang

fripping n.

[? SE fripperies or Lancs. dial. frip, something worthless]

domestic bickering between husband and wife.

W.S. Maugham Circle II 38: It has struck me that whenever they started fripping you took a malicious pleasure in goading them on.
W.S. Maugham in Short Stories II 581: It was notorious among their friends that the couple did not get on. They had the distressing habit of fripping in public .
[UK]‘A. Gilbert’ Looking Glass Murder 69: Not that I ever heard them frip, they didn’t even argue [OED].