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frickle¹

Rhymes with -ɪkəl

Where it comes from

Blend of fried + pickle.

noun frickles

  1. Canada, US A fried pickle. Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20).

frickle²

Rhymes with -ɪkəl

interjection

  1. a minced oath "Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out.

noun frickles

  1. euphemistic A penis. After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death.

frickle³

Rhymes with -ɪkəl

Where it comes from

Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).

adjective more frickle · most frickle

  1. Not solid or firm; loose; friable. Vpon this fain and frickle foundation of two false and contrary opinions was that leage of Smalcaldium stroken: whereof ensued that lamentable and cruell warre, to the greate waste and destruction of Germany, with the murder of infinit thousands of men.
  2. Changeable; undependable; fickle. Yvette Guilbert, a greater favourite than ever with the generally frickle and changeable Parisians, has been singing for three nights at Lyons, where she received 1000 francs an evening—that is, ₤40.

noun frickles

  1. A prickling, shivery sensation; frisson. at the frickle of apprehension ( real or imaginary ) on any issue.

verb frickles · frickling · frickled

  1. To upset or discombobulate. In his own Yorkshire words, they made him 'reet frickled', and any senior officers who came to inspect us never got their messages correctly delivered if poor Thompson was on duty.
  2. To move, act, or change randomly. The ball took a lucky bounce for JSU and frickled away from the goal before a Panther player could capitalize on the rebound, and the game remained scoreless.
  3. To speckle. I was roused from my abstraction, and lo and behold! my stockings were all frickled with blood, and God knows how many lives I had to answer for.

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@misc{frickle_2026,
  title = {frickle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/frickle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}