Fridge vs Mouse - What's the difference?
fridge | mouse |
(archaic) To rub, chafe.
:* 1761': You might have rumpled and crumpled, and doubled and creased, and fretted and '''fridged the outsides of them all to pieces — Laurence Sterne, ''The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , vol. III (Penguin 2003, p. 145)
54, in which (Kyle Rayner), the (Green Lantern), comes home to discover that a villain has murdered his girlfriend and left her body for him to find in the refrigerator.Tim Hanley, ''Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine , Chicago Review Press (2014), ISBN 9781613749098, To place inside of a refrigerator.
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* 2013 , Jeffrey Deaver, The October List , Grand Central Publishing (2013), ISBN 9781455576661,
* 2013 , James Morton, Brilliant Bread , Ebury Press (2013), ISBN 9780091955601,
(label) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a female character from a narrative, often strictly to hurt a male character and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s).
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Any small rodent of the genus Mus .
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*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
(lb) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
A quiet or shy person.
(lb) (plural'' mice''' ''or, rarely,'' ' mouses ) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
(lb) Hematoma.
(lb) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.
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:(Shakespeare)
A match used in firing guns or blasting.
(lb) A small model of (a fragment of) (Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory) with desirable properties (depending on the context).
To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around ).
To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
(nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
(computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
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(obsolete, nonce, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
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As verbs the difference between fridge and mouse
is that fridge is (archaic) to rub, chafe or fridge can be to place inside of a refrigerator while mouse is to move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around ).As nouns the difference between fridge and mouse
is that fridge is a refrigerator while mouse is any small rodent of the genus mus .fridge
English
Etymology 1
Probably imitatory; compare frig .Verb
(fridg)See also
* frigEtymology 2
Abbreviation of refrigerator. The fandom verb sense was coined by (Gail Simone), who criticized a plot point in ''pages 238-239
Alternative forms
* 'fridgeVerb
page 201:
- I had turned up with a bottle, which the hostess, Celia, had duly fridged , but everyone else had opted for camomile tea, making me feel like the biggest lush in south London.
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- He munched and sipped, wished the soda was cold. Should have fridged it.
page 134:
- If you don't have two stones, bake it in two different batches, fridging your remaining doughs whilst you wait.
Welcome to the Punch: A little less conversation", Spark* (University of Reading), Volume 63, Issue 1, 26 April 2013, page 15:
- The backing cast are also all excellent, as expected considering the calibre of actors attached to the film – Andrea Riseborough is a very good example, playing a fascinating cop who really didn't deserve to be 'fridged' (meaning: removed from the action so that the men can do their manly things).
page 240:
- In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.
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mouse
English
Noun
(mice)Hypernyms
* (small rodent) rodentCoordinate terms
* (small rodent) rat * (input device) joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stickDerived terms
* (as) quiet as a mouse * cat and mouse * church mouse * deer mouse * dormouse * fieldmouse * house mouse * kangaroo mouse * mouseable, mousable * mouse button * mouse click * mouse-ear * mouse mat * mouse pad * mouser * mousetrap * mousy * optical mouse * play cat and mouse * poor as a church mouse * when the cat's away the mice will playVerb
(mous)- Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
- I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
- Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
- [Death] mousing the flesh of men.