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frig¹

  • /fɹɪɡ/

Rhymes with -ɪɡ

Where it comes from

From Middle English friggen (“to quiver”), perhaps from Old English *frygian (“to rub, caress”), related to Old English frēogan, frīgan (“to love, release, embrace, caress”), frīge (pl., “love”). Compare also Faroese fríggj (“erotocism, sex, flirtation”), Old English ġefrīgian (“to embrace”). More at free.

Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge), from Middle English frikien (“to keep (the arms and hands) in constant motion”), from Old English frician (“to dance”).

verb frigs · frigging · frigged

  1. ambitransitive, slang To masturbate. She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library.
  2. ambitransitive, euphemistic, mildly, slang, vulgar To fuck; to have sex. Come on, honey, let’s frig.
  3. intransitive, slang To mess or muck usually with about or around'. Be sensible; you’re just frigging about now.
  4. To break. Where’s you get this ladder from? It’s frigged!
  5. ambitransitive, slang To make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate. The system wasn't working but I've frigged the data and it's usable now.

Similar: pleasure oneself, feck, frack, frak, copulate with, patch

noun frigs

  1. An act of frigging.
  2. A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed). I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now.
  3. euphemistic, mildly, slang, vulgar A fuck. I don’t give a frig!

interjection

  1. euphemistic Euphemistic form of fuck

frig²

  • /fɹɪd͡ʒ/ US, UK

Sounds like fridge · Rhymes with -ɪdʒ

Where it comes from

See fridge.

noun friges

  1. Dated spelling of fridge. "Perhaps you prefer beer - there's plenty in the frig."

Frig³

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ.

proper noun

  1. alternative Alternative form of Frigg.Frigg The cult of the fertility goddess Frig is sufficiently proved by the occurrence of her name in the Old English Frigedæg, the modern Friday. But no place of her worship has yet been identified with complete certainty, and her name was not used in the formation of English personal names. Seaxneat, the

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