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Franger vs Fringer - What's the difference?

franger | fringer |

As nouns the difference between franger and fringer

is that franger is (australia|new zealand|slang) a condom while fringer is a person who makes fringes for garments.

franger

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A condom.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , title=Pirate Pay TV , group=aus.tv.pay , author=Egan Blinkhorn , date=November 4 , year=1999 , passage=You have a point.  But on the other hand, I didn't run off and tell mum with a six pack in one hand and an open franger packet in the other. citation
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    • , title=Sydney 2000 -Too sexy for some..... , group=rec.travel.australia+nz , author=rhay10 , date=September 22 , year=2000 , passage=Ranpaging(sic) Roy Slaven & HG Nelson who are comedians of the host broadcaster's Olympic graveyard shift have said that 48,000 of the frangers are for the personal use of the mayor of the Olympic village -  'Richo'.  they claim the rest are for the Cuban team who when they have finished their events are going at it like rabbits. citation
  • * 2001 , , unnumbered page,
    • The barber would say while he was cutting a grown-up?s hair, ‘Do you need any home supplies, sir?’ which is the secret code for a packet of frangers .
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  • *:Gone are the terms we used in our youth the frenchies, frangers , rubbers, joes, french letters, gumboots, rubbers, johnnies, parachutes and plastic fantastics -- these days they're just condoms.

    • Derived terms

    * foot franger

    Synonyms

    * dinger (Australian slang) * See also

    References

    English terms with unknown etymologies ----

    fringer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who makes fringes for garments
  • (scrapbooks) A device for making paper fringes
  • One who attends Fringe theater festival (e.g., the Edinburgh Fringe festival)
  • A person on the fringe of anything; e.g. a crowd, or society in general

    • Quotations

    * 1998, Jack Vance, Night Lamp [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312864728&id=fEfpyaadd7cC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&sig=6m1yzALlxahLdw7yucMb6umOn-4] *: The region was remote; the early explorers were pirates, fugitives and fringers , followed by miscellaneous settlers, to the effect that Camberwell had been inhabited for many thousands of years. * 2001, Leslie A Turvey in Blessed Are They Which Are Persecuted, March 25, 2001 *: In any gathering there are always those at the fringe of the crowd where they can creep away when the message goes against their liking. You might call them fringers . * 2001, Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312876637&id=WycRLdcQL1EC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&sig=0bsLGgglyoCuT5BWsVFGcy2FG5g] *: If at any point a fringer fails to plant, if at any point the soil is broken, then the rains eat channels under it, and tear away the fringe on either side, and eat back into farmland behind it. * 2001, R Celeste Ray, Highland Heritage [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0807849138&id=2pyqgupHqtgC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&sig=Vr_AWP7zbnxHpFuxcI1HXOJ9pqo] *: These fringers are distinguished from mainstreamers by their lack of exposure to, or interest in, Jacobitism and Highlandism.