Frig vs Grig - What's the difference?

frig | grig |

As verbs the difference between frig and grig

is that frig is to fidget, to wriggle around while grig is to irritate or annoy.

As nouns the difference between frig and grig

is that frig is an act of frigging while grig is little creature.

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

grig

English

Noun

(en noun)

little creature;

# A cricket or grasshopper.

#* 1926 , Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist (Ch. 5):

The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig .

# An insect in the family Prophalangopsidae, related to katydids

# Any small eel.

# The broad-nosed eel. See glut

heath.

(Audrey)

Verb

(en-verb)

To irritate or annoy.