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frig | frug |

As a verb frig

is to fidget, to wriggle around.

As a noun frig

is an act of frigging.

As a proper noun frug is

a novelty dance of 1960s America fame.

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

    • frug

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • a novelty dance of 1960s America fame
  • * {{quote-book
    • , passage=They were doing a modified frug , a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school. , page=166 , title=East is East: A Novel , author=T. Coraghessan Boyle , publisher=Viking , year=1990 , isbn=0670832200}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , passage=In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug , their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring. , page=158 , title=The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982 , author=Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston , publisher=Duke University Press , year=1991 , isbn=0822311666}} English terms with unknown etymologies ----