Frig
intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 An act of frigging.
- 2 Dated spelling of fridge.
""Perhaps you prefer beer - there's plenty in the frig.""
- 3 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."
- 4 A fuck. euphemistic, mildly, slang, vulgar
"I don’t give a frig!"
- 1 To masturbate. ambitransitive, slang
"She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library."
- 2 To fuck; to have sex. ambitransitive, euphemistic, mildly, slang, vulgar
"Come on, honey, let’s frig."
- 3 To mess or muck usually with about or around'. intransitive, slang
"Be sensible; you’re just frigging about now."
- 4 To break.
"Where’s you get this ladder from? It’s frigged!"
- 5 To make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate. ambitransitive, slang
"The system wasn't working but I've frigged the data and it's usable now."
- 1 Euphemistic form of fuck euphemistic, form-of
- 1 Alternative form of Frigg. alt-of, alternative
"The cult of the fertility goddess Frig is sufficiently proved by the occurrence of her name in the Old English Frigedæg, the modern Friday. But no place of her worship has yet been identified with complete certainty, and her name was not used in the formation of English personal names. Seaxneat, the ancestor of the kings of Essex, was presumably honoured by their subjects, though the place-names which arose among them contain no trace of him. But Woden, Thunor, Tiw, and Frig are the only deities whose individualized worship in England is beyond dispute."
Example
More examples"She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library."
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”).
See fridge.
Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ.
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