frickle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fried pickle.

   • Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20).
   • Raise your hand if you love fried pickies (both my hands are raised). There is no stopping my love for pickle-anything, but frickles take it to a whole new level.
   • Using the deep-fryer's wire basket, a slotted spoon, or a spider, remove the frickles to paper towels to absorb extra oil or drain on a wire rack.
2. 2

   a minced oath

   • "Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out.
   • I know that they loved me and all that frickle-feely stuff, surely wanted the best but I didn't care too much for love—at least not now.
   • Finally, I though of something with survival value: I need to get the frickle out of here before anyone sees this tattoo!
3. 3

   A penis.

   • After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death.
   • "A frickle is for a boy and a frackle is for a girl,” Belle explains with a shrug, like it's the most normal thing in the world.
   • But looking at the above, we can start to understand why when we say "virgin," we mean virgin in the sense that we know virgin today—that she didn't do the old frickle-frackle with Joseph.
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   1. 4

      Not solid or firm

      Not solid or firm; loose; friable.

      • it is extremely frickle in the limestone formation;
      • The land which is kept loose and frickle offers opportunity for the plants to grow — then it prevents evaporation and the moisture is stored up for the plants use when the dry season comes.
   2. 5

      Changeable

      Changeable; undependable; fickle.

      • Yvette Guilbert, a greater favourite than ever with the generally frickle and changeable Parisians, has been singing for three nights at Lyons, where she received 1000 francs an evening—that is, ₤40.
      • And thither Jeanne set out, in March 1557, accompanied by the frickle, wayward, sinning Antoine and the boy who was his living image.
      • And now most of our warriors have forgotten us, and the frickle nation bellows: 'Long live King Absalom!'
   3. 6

      A prickling, shivery sensation

      A prickling, shivery sensation; frisson.

      • at the frickle of apprehension ( real or imaginary ) on any issue.
      • As I slowly open my eyes, I get that somefeeli's-watching-me frickle.
   4. 7

      To upset or discombobulate.

      • In his own Yorkshire words, they made him 'reet frickled', and any senior officers who came to inspect us never got their messages correctly delivered if poor Thompson was on duty.
      • Sometimes the noise changed pitch and made my scales frickle, sounding like the moan of a doomed wooden ship when it runs aground.
   5. 8

      To move, act, or change randomly.

      • The ball took a lucky bounce for JSU and frickled away from the goal before a Panther player could capitalize on the rebound, and the game remained scoreless.
      • I got the porridge going – in the right saucepan mind, while Johnny frickled round my feet and the constant threat of Felix climbing out of his basket, desperate to copy.
      • Mood became frickled from sudden smile to very rude.
   6. 9

      To speckle.

      • I was roused from my abstraction, and lo and behold! my stockings were all frickled with blood, and God knows how many lives I had to answer for.
      • Striped like a zebra, frickled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;
      • Blood frickled from the holes.

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