Fringer vs Frigger - What's the difference?
fringer | frigger |
A person who makes fringes for garments
(scrapbooks) A device for making paper fringes
One who attends Fringe theater festival (e.g., the Edinburgh Fringe festival)
A person on the fringe of anything; e.g. a crowd, or society in general
An object crafted for the personal amusement of craftsmen, their friends and family.
(mild, expletive, slang) A fucker.
(slang) Someone who frigs.
(Australia, slang, derogatory) An individual who is stereotypical of a rural Australian, typically wearing plain denim jeans, singlets and cowboy hats.
As a noun fringer
is a person who makes fringes for garments.As a proper noun frigger is
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(en noun)Quotations
* 1998, Jack Vance, Night Lamp [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312864728&id=fEfpyaadd7cC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&sig=6m1yzALlxahLdw7yucMb6umOn-4] *: The region was remote; the early explorers were pirates, fugitives and fringers , followed by miscellaneous settlers, to the effect that Camberwell had been inhabited for many thousands of years. * 2001, Leslie A Turvey in Blessed Are They Which Are Persecuted, March 25, 2001 *: In any gathering there are always those at the fringe of the crowd where they can creep away when the message goes against their liking. You might call them fringers . * 2001, Orson Scott Card, The Folk of the Fringe [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0312876637&id=WycRLdcQL1EC&pg=PA108&lpg=PA108&sig=0bsLGgglyoCuT5BWsVFGcy2FG5g] *: If at any point a fringer fails to plant, if at any point the soil is broken, then the rains eat channels under it, and tear away the fringe on either side, and eat back into farmland behind it. * 2001, R Celeste Ray, Highland Heritage [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0807849138&id=2pyqgupHqtgC&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&sig=Vr_AWP7zbnxHpFuxcI1HXOJ9pqo] *: These fringers are distinguished from mainstreamers by their lack of exposure to, or interest in, Jacobitism and Highlandism.frigger
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(en noun)Synonyms
* hick, bumpkinSee also
* boganReferences
*frigger'', ''The F-Word , by Jesse Sheidlower, Lewis Black, 2009, page 1988. * (crafted object)
The Frigger Makersby Arnold Rattenbury, ISBN 1899549005 * (crafted object)
frigger'', ''The teen-ager's guide to collecting practically anything , by Norah Smaridge, Hilda Hunter, 1972, page 69.