frig

English

Etymology 1

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

• IPA^(key): /fɹɪɡ/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

  Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, obsolete) to fidget, to wriggle around

   Will you sit down and stop frigging around.

2. (transitive, intransitive) to masturbate

   She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library.

   • 1880, anonymous, 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."

3. (transitive, intransitive, euphemistic) to fuck (misapplied euphemism)

   Come on honey, let’s frig.

   • 1988, Hollinghurst, Alan, The Swimming Pool Library, page 113:

     Not that we didn’t frig in the day-time too.

4. (intransitive) to mess or muck (about, around etc.)

   Be sensible, you’re just frigging about now.

5. (transitive, intransitive) 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

• (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

Derived terms

• frigger
• frigging
• frig off

Translations

to fidget, to wriggle around

to masturbate

• Afrikaans: draadtrek
• Bulgarian: онанирам (onaniram), мастурбирам (masturbiram)

• Finnish: masturboida (fi)
• Swedish: pulla (sv), onanera (sv)

to fuck

• Afrikaans: naai
• Finnish: nussia (fi), naida (fi)

• Italian: Fottere

to mess or muck

Noun

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

See fridge.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪdʒ
• Homophone: fridge

Noun

frig (plural friges)

1. Dated spelling of fridge.

Anagrams

• grif

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Aromanian

Etymology 1

From Latin frīgus. Compare Daco-Romanian frig.

Alternative forms

• frigu

Noun

frig n (plural friguri)

1. cold, coldness

Related terms

• frigã
• friguros
• nfriguredz

See also

• arcoari
• aratsi
• dzer

Etymology 2

From Latin frīgō. Compare Romanian frige, frig.

Alternative forms

• frigu

Verb

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

1. I roast, grill.

Related terms

• fridziri / fridzire
• friptu
• fripshu
• fripturã

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Cornish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

frig m (dual dewfrik, plural frigow)

1. nostril

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Romanian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

frig n (plural friguri)

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

Declension

Declension of frig

	singular		plural
	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

Synonyms

• (cold): răcoare
• (fever): febră

Antonyms

• (warmth): căldură

Related terms

• friguros

See also

• ger
• rece

Etymology 2

Verb

frig

1. first-person singular present indicative of frige
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of frige
3. third-person plural present indicative of frige

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Welsh

Noun

frig

1. Soft mutation of brig.

Mutation

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.