Fricking vs Fracking - What's the difference?
fricking | fracking |
(euphemistic) Freaking; less offensive euphemism for fucking
(euphemistic) Freaking
(oil drilling) Hydraulic fracturing.
* 2010 , Andrew Chung, "
(slang, euphemistic, bowdlerization) Fucking.
* {{quote-book, 1991, James Whitehead, Joiner, page=79, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=hl1YoavrXGYC&pg=PA79, isbn=1557282048
, passage=He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter. }}
* {{quote-news, 2006, January, , Best Pentium Chipset, Maximum PC
, passage=As we said before, will someone please agree on a fracking dual videocard standard?}}
* {{quote-book, 2007, Jose Armando Perez, Betrayed? An Unscheduled Rendezvous, page=68, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=9FFGE2IE89AC&pg=RA1-PA68
, passage=It was a fracking nightmare.}}
As adjectives the difference between fricking and fracking
is that fricking is freaking; less offensive euphemism for fucking while fracking is fucking.As an adverb fricking
is freaking.As a noun fracking is
hydraulic fracturing.fricking
English
Alternative forms
* friggingAdjective
(-)- "Throw me a fricking bone here!"
Adverb
(-)- What are you fricking looking at?
- He was so fricking drunk, he passed out kneeling in front of the toilet.
fracking
English
Noun
(-) (wikipedia fracking)Quebec between a rock and a hard place on gas from shale," Toronto Star , 25 July (retrieved 26 July 2010):
- Still, environmentalists look to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry about higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get the gas—and water contamination.
Adjective
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