Frizz vs Fridge - What's the difference?
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(lb) Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls.
(lb) To curl; to make frizzy.
* (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
* 1937 , (John Betjeman),
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To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth.
To make (leather) soft and of even thickness by rubbing, as with pumice stone or a blunt instrument.
A mass of tightly curled or unruly hair.
(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.
* 2007 , Lucy Diamond, Any Way You Want Me , Pan (2007), ISBN 9780330446433,
* 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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* 2014 , Tim Hanley, Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine , Chicago Review Press (2014), ISBN 9781613749098,
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As verbs the difference between frizz and fridge
is that frizz is of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls while fridge is to rub, chafe.As nouns the difference between frizz and fridge
is that frizz is a mass of tightly curled or unruly hair while fridge is a refrigerator.frizz
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) frysen, from (etyl) friser, .Verb
- with her hair frizzed short up to her ears
- In labour-saving homes, with care, / Their wives frizz out peroxide hair.
- There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed , waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) fryse, from the verb. See above.Noun
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* *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.
