frigger

See also: Frigger

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪɡə/

• Audio (AU)

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Etymology 1

From frig +‎ -er.

Noun

frigger (plural friggers)

1. (obsolete) Someone who leaps or moves about; a clown.
2. (slang, rare) The penis.
   • 1684, John Rochester (attributed), Sodom:

     Great Bolloxinians frigger beats allarmes, / By unctious poyson in her Cunt infus’d.

   • 1927, Hart Crane, letter, Jan–Feb:

     There once was a cannibal nigger / Who ate up his enemy's frigger; / His dozens of wives / Had the time of their lives; / He grew bigger and bigger and BIGGER.

3. (slang) Someone who frigs; a masturbator.
4. (mild, swear word) A disagreeable or objectionable person.
5. (Australia, slang, derogatory) A stereotypical rural Australian, typically wearing plain denim jeans, singlets and cowboy hat.

Synonyms

• (rural Australian): hick, bumpkin

See also

• bogan

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

frigger (plural friggers)

1. An object made by a glassmaker (or, later, other craftsmen), either as an ornament or as a testing sample.

References

• frigger, The F-Word, by Jesse Sheidlower, Lewis Black, 2009, page 1988.
• (crafted object) The Frigger Makers by Arnold Rattenbury, →ISBN
• (crafted object) frigger, The teen-ager's guide to collecting practically anything, by Norah Smaridge, Hilda Hunter, 1972, page 69.