Frickle
adj, intj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A fried pickle. Canada, US
"Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20)."
- 2 A penis. euphemistic
"After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death."
- 3 A prickling, shivery sensation; frisson.
"at the frickle of apprehension ( real or imaginary ) on any issue."
- 1 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."
- 2 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."
- 3 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."
- 1 Not solid or firm; loose; friable.
"Vpon this fain and frickle foundation of two false and contrary opinions was that leage of Smalcaldium stroken: whereof ensued that lamentable and cruell warre, to the greate waste and destruction of Germany, with the murder of infinit thousands of men."
- 2 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."
- 1 a minced oath
""Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out."
Example
More examples"Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20)."
Etymology
Blend of fried + pickle.
Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).
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