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frice | fice |

As an adverb frice

is four times.

As a noun fice is

a small, snappy, belligerent, mixed-breed dog.

frice

English

Adverb

(-)
  • (rare, nonstandard, humorous) four times
  • * 1999 , John R Erickson, Gerald L Holmes, Every dog has his day
    • ...not once or twice or thrice or frice , but many times, and always under awkward conditions.
  • * 2001 , Benedict Kelly, The collected stories of Benedict Kiely
    • ...and wince, she says, and twice and thrice and frice and fice and sice and seven-up sits the Star of the County Down...
  • * 2001 , "Joe", Linnell finds the camera!'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.music.tmbg )
    • Three cheers for scratch: Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huz-ZAH! Not only do I get to see it now, but I got to say huzzah thrice! Well, I guess now it's frice .
  • * 2001 , "Alan T Gower", Seconds from Disaster'' (on Internet newsgroup ''uk.rec.motorcycles )
    • I've been caught out once or twice or thrice or frice .
    English frequency adverbs

    fice

    English

    Alternative forms

    * feist, fise, fist

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, snappy, belligerent, mixed-breed dog.
  • * 1805 October 3, Lorenzo Dow, journal, in Orrin Scofield (ed.), Perambulations of Cosmopolite; or Travels and Labors of Lorenzo Dow, in Europe and America , Orrin Scofield (1842), page 178,
    • He wrote a letter to Bob Sample, one of the most popular A-double-L-part preachers in the country, who like a little fice , or cur dog, would rail behind my back.
  • * a''1849, James W. C. Pennington, ''The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States , Second Edition, Charles Gilpin (1849), pages 33–34,
    • Besides inflicting upon my own excited imagination the belief that I made noise enough to be heard by the inmates of the house who were likely to be rising at the time, I had the misfortune to attract the notice of a little house-dog, such as we call in that part of the world a “fice ,’ on account of its being not only the smallest species of the canine race, but also, because it is the most saucy, noisy, and teasing of all dogs.
  • * 1873, Joseph S. Williams, Old Times in West Tennessee: Reminiscences—Semi-historic—of Pioneer Life and the Early Emigrant Settlers in the Big Hatchie Country , W. G. Cheeney, page 260,
    • One August afternoon he was returning from his dinner, when near the public square, he came to a little white fice dog and another little dog grining and growling at each other on the sidewalk.
  • * 1955, John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage , Harper and Brothers Publishers, page 114
    • At Belton, an armed thug suddenly arose and started toward him. But old Sam Houston, looking him right in the eye, put each hand on his own pistols: "Ladies and Gentlemen, keep your seats. It is nothing but a fice barking at the lion in his den.
  • * 1995, George Cauley, quoted in Mark Derr, Dog’s Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship , University of Chicago Press (2004), ISBN 0-226-14280-9, page 57,
    • When I was growing up, everybody had a little dog they called a feist or fice and a big yard dog, a cur.
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