frig
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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”). 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”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
frig (third-person singular simple present frigs, present participle frigging, simple past and past participle frigged)
- (slang, transitive, intransitive) To masturbate.
- She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library.
- 1880, anonymous author, The Pearl:
- There was an old parson of Lundy,
Fell asleep in his vestry on Sunday;
He awoke with a scream,
"What, another wet dream,
This comes of not frigging since Monday."
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, euphemistic) To fuck; to have sex.
- Come on, honey, let’s frig.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 113:
- Not that we didn’t frig in the day-time too.
- (intransitive, slang) To mess or muck usually with about or around'.
- Be sensible; you’re just frigging about now.
- To break.
- Where’s you get this ladder from? It’s frigged!
- (transitive, intransitive, 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.
Synonyms edit
- (to masturbate): fap, pleasure oneself; see also Thesaurus:masturbate
- (to fuck): eff, feck, frack, frak; see also Thesaurus:copulate or Thesaurus:copulate with
- (to mess, muck): fiddle around, fool around, fuck around
- (to make a temporary alteration): bodge, patch; see also Thesaurus:kludge
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Noun edit
frig (plural frigs)
- An act of frigging.
- 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.
- (euphemistic) A fuck.
- I don’t give a frig!
Etymology 2 edit
See fridge.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /fɹɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪdʒ
- Homophone: fridge
Noun edit
frig (plural friges)
- Dated spelling of fridge.
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 139:
- "Perhaps you prefer beer - there's plenty in the frig."
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Aromanian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin frīgus. Compare Daco-Romanian frig.
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Noun edit
frig n (plural friguri)
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Etymology 2 edit
From Latin frīgō. Compare Romanian frige, frig.
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
frig first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative fridzi or fridze, past participle friptã)
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Cornish edit
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Megleno-Romanian edit
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Noun edit
frig
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Romanian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Latin frīgus (“cold”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sriHgos-, *sriges-, *sriHges-.
Noun edit
frig n (plural friguri)
- cold, frigidity
- Synonym: răcoare
- (in the plural, popular variant frigură) fever, chill
- Synonym: febră
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) frig | frigul | (niște) friguri | frigurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) frig | frigului | (unor) friguri | frigurilor |
vocative | frigule | frigurilor |
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- (warmth): căldură
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Etymology 2 edit
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frig
- inflection of frige:
Welsh edit
Noun edit
frig
- Soft mutation of brig.
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
brig | frig | mrig | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |