frig

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”). 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”).

• IPA^(key): /fɹɪɡ/

• Audio (General Australian):

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  Rhymes: -ɪɡ

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

1. (slang, ambitransitive) 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. (ambitransitive, 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.

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.

• (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

• frigger
• frigging
• friggle
• frig up
• frig off
• frig around

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!

frig

1. Euphemistic form of fuck

See fridge.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /fɹɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒ
• Homophone: fridge

frig (plural friges)

2. 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."

• grif

From Latin frīgus. Compare Daco-Romanian frig.

• frigu

frig n (plural friguri)

1. cold, coldness

• frigã
• friguros
• nfriguredz

• arcoari
• aratsi
• dzer

From Latin frīgō. Compare Romanian frige, frig.

• frigu

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

1. to roast, grill

• fridziri / fridzire
• friptu
• fripshu
• fripturã

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

frig m (dual dewfrik, plural frigow)

1. nostril

From Middle English fryken, from Old English frīcian.

frig

1. dance

   Synonym: portlaghrin

   • 1689 James Farewell, The Irish Hudibras, or, Fingallian prince taken from the sixth book of Virgil's Æneids, and adapted to the present times. (Appendix: "Alphabetical Table" of "Fingallian Words, or Irish Phrases"):

     Frig,

     Dance.

From Latin frīgus.

frig

1. cold

• ratsi

frīġ

1. alternative form of frēo

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

frig n (plural friguri)

1. cold, frigidity

   Synonym: răcoare

2. (in the plural, popular variant frigură) fever, chill

   Synonym: febră

• (antonym(s) of “warmth”): căldură

• friguros

• ger
• rece

frig

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

frig

1. soft mutation of brig