Trigged vs Frigged - What's the difference?
trigged | frigged |
(trig)
True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful.
Safe; secure.
Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health.
Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart.
*(British Quarterly Review) (1845-1866)
*:To sit on a horse square and trig .
*1973 , (Newsweek) , April 16
*:The [torture] stories seemed incongruent with the men telling them – a trim, trig lot who, given a few pounds more flesh, might have stepped right out of a recruiting poster.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
Active; clever.
(uncountable) trigonometry.
(countable, informal) A trigonometric point.
(UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid.
To fill; to stuff; to cram.
(frig)
(obsolete) to fidget, to wriggle around
(ambitransitive) to masturbate
*1880 , anonymous,
(ambitransitive) to fuck (misapplied euphemism)
* 1988 , , page 113
to mess or muck (about, around etc.)
(ambitransitive) to make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate
an act of frigging
A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed)
a fuck
As verbs the difference between trigged and frigged
is that trigged is (trig) while frigged is (frig).trigged
English
Verb
(head)trig
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) trig, tryg, (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(trigger)Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (trigonometry).Noun
Etymology 3
See (trigger).Noun
(en noun)- (Wright)
Verb
(trigg)Etymology 4
Compare (etyl) .Verb
(trigg)Anagrams
* * ----frigged
English
Verb
(head)frig
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l). Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge) from (etyl) .Verb
(en-verb)- Will you sit down and stop frigging around.
- She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library.
- 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."
- Come on honey, let’s frig .
- Not that we didn’t frig in the day-time too.
- Be sensible, you’re just frigging about now.
- The system wasn't working but I've frigged the data and it's usable now.
Derived terms
* friggerNoun
(en noun)- I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now
- I don’t give a frig !
