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

  • IPA(key): /fɹɪɡ/
  • (file)
    Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Verb edit

frig (third-person singular simple present frigs, present participle frigging, simple past and past participle frigged)

  1. (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."
  2. (transitive, intransitive, slang, euphemistic) 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. (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.
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Noun edit

frig (plural 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) A fuck.
    I don’t give a frig!

Etymology 2 edit

See fridge.

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Noun edit

frig (plural friges)

  1. 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)

  1. cold, coldness
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Etymology 2 edit

From Latin frīgō. Compare Romanian frige, frig.

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frig first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative fridzi or fridze, past participle friptã)

  1. to roast, grill
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Cornish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [friːɡ]

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frig m (dual dewfrik, plural frigow)

  1. nostril

Megleno-Romanian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin frigus.

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frig

  1. cold

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Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Latin frīgus (cold), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sriHgos-, *sriges-, *sriHges-.

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frig n (plural friguri)

  1. cold, frigidity
    Synonym: răcoare
  2. (in the plural, popular variant frigură) fever, chill
    Synonym: febră
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frig

  1. inflection of frige:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Welsh edit

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frig

  1. Soft mutation of brig.

Mutation edit

Welsh mutation
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.