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Frig vs Fridge - What's the difference?

frig | fridge |

As verbs the difference between frig and fridge

is that frig is to fidget, to wriggle around while fridge is to rub, chafe.

As nouns the difference between frig and fridge

is that frig is an act of frigging while fridge is a refrigerator.

frig

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . More at (l). Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge) from (etyl) .

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (obsolete) to fidget, to wriggle around
    • Will you sit down and stop frigging around.
  • (ambitransitive) to masturbate
    • She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library.
  • *1880 , anonymous,
    • There was an old parson of Lundy,
    Fell asleep in his vestry on Sunday;
    He awoke with a scream,
    "What, another wet dream,
    This comes of not frigging since Monday."
  • (ambitransitive) to fuck (misapplied euphemism)
    • Come on honey, let’s frig .
  • * 1988 , , page 113
    • Not that we didn’t frig in the day-time too.
  • to mess or muck (about, around etc.)
    • Be sensible, you’re just frigging about now.
  • (ambitransitive) to make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate
    • The system wasn't working but I've frigged the data and it's usable now.
    Derived terms
    * frigger

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an act of frigging
  • 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
  • a fuck
    • I don’t give a frig !

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation.English abbreviations

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a fridge

    • fridge

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably imitatory; compare frig .

    Verb

    (fridg)
  • (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)
    • See also
    * frig

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of refrigerator. The fandom verb sense was coined by (Gail Simone), who criticized a plot point in ''
  • 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, pages 238-239

    • Alternative forms

    * 'fridge

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A refrigerator.
    • Related terms
    * fridge-freezer * fridge magnet

    Verb

  • To place inside of a refrigerator.
  • * 2007 , Lucy Diamond, Any Way You Want Me , Pan (2007), ISBN 9780330446433, 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.
  • * 2013 , Jeffrey Deaver, The October List , Grand Central Publishing (2013), ISBN 9781455576661, unnumbered page:
    • He munched and sipped, wished the soda was cold. Should have fridged it.
  • * 2013 , James Morton, Brilliant Bread , Ebury Press (2013), ISBN 9780091955601, page 134:
    • If you don't have two stones, bake it in two different batches, fridging your remaining doughs whilst you wait.
  • (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).
  • * 2013 , Siobhan Whitebread, " 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).
  • * 2014 , Tim Hanley, Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine , Chicago Review Press (2014), ISBN 9781613749098, page 240:
    • In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.
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