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”). 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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɹɪɡ/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

  Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Verb

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, mildly vulgar) 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.

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
• friggle
• frig up
• frig off
• frig around

Translations

to masturbate

Afrikaans: draadtrek Bulgarian: онанирам (onaniram), мастурбирам (masturbiram) Finnish: masturboida (fi) Swedish: pulla (sv), onanera (sv)

to fuck

Afrikaans: naai (af) Finnish: nussia (fi), naida (fi) Italian: Fottere

to mess about or muck about

Finnish: sählätä (fi), pelleillä (fi)

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. (euphemism, mildly vulgar, slang,) A fuck.

   I don’t give a frig!

Interjection

frig

1. Euphemistic form of fuck

Etymology 2

See fridge.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪdʒ
• Homophone: fridge

Noun

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."

Anagrams

• grif

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 (third-person singular fridzi or fridze, participle friptã)

1. to roast, grill

Related terms

• fridziri / fridzire
• friptu
• fripshu
• fripturã

Cornish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

frig m (dual dewfrik, plural frigow)

1. nostril

Derived terms

• bysow frig (“nose-ring”)

Fingallian

Etymology

From Middle English fryken, from Old English frīcian.

Noun

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.

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin frīgus.

Noun

frig

1. cold

See also

• ratsi

Old English

Adjective

frīġ

1. alternative form of frēo

Romanian

Etymology 1

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

Noun

frig n (plural friguri)

1. cold, frigidity

   Synonym: răcoare

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

   Synonym: febră

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	frig	frigul		friguri	frigurile
genitive-dative	frig	frigului		friguri	frigurilor
vocative	frigule			frigurilor

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “warmth”): căldură

Related terms

• friguros

See also

• ger
• rece

Etymology 2

Verb

frig

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

Welsh

Noun

frig

1. soft mutation of brig

Mutation

Mutated forms of brig

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
brig	frig	mrig	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.