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frig

verb
/fɹɪɡ//fɹɪd͡ʒ/US

Etymology

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”), Old English ġefrīgian (“to embrace”). 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”).

  1. inherited from frician
  2. inherited from frikien
  3. inherited from *frygian✻ — “to rub, caress”
  4. inherited from friggen

Definitions

  1. To masturbate.

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

    To fuck; to have sex.

    • Come on, honey, let’s frig.
    • Not that we didn’t frig in the day-time too.

  3. To mess or muck usually with about or around'.

    • Be sensible; you’re just frigging about now.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. To break.

      • Where’s you get this ladder from? It’s frigged!

    2. 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.

    3. An act of frigging.

    4. A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually…

      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.

    5. A fuck.

      • I don’t give a frig!

    6. Euphemistic form of fuck

    7. Dated spelling of fridge.

      • "Perhaps you prefer beer - there's plenty in the frig."

    8. Alternative form of Frigg.

      • Alternatively, this group might consist of the goddess Frig, associated with two other female deities (possibly Eostre and Hretha?) – but we cannot be certain that the Anglo-Saxons worshipped Frig.
      • Mighty God Woden, Merciful Goddess Frig, before me stand two people who have come of their own free will to break the bonds that made them as one. […] I cleanse these rings in the name of Woden and Frig.

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Derived

frigger, frigging, friggle, frig up, frig off, frig around

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for frig. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA