frickle
frickle noun: a fried pickle.
Noun (1)
frickle (plural frickles)
- A fried pickle.
- Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20).2013, Lisa Faulkner, The Way I Cook..., page 41
- Raise your hand if you love fried pickies (both my hands are raised). There is no stopping my love for pickle-anything, but frickles take it to a whole new level.2020, Rachel Mansfield, Just the Good Stuff, page 116
Interjection
- a minced oath
- "Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out.2008, Sarah Thyre, Dark at the Roots: A Memoir
- I know that they loved me and all that frickle-feely stuff, surely wanted the best but I didn't care too much for love—at least not now.2013, Charles Raymond, Inspiration
Noun (2)
frickle (plural frickles)
- A penis.
- After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death.2016, Therese Oneill, Unmentionable
- "A frickle is for a boy and a frackle is for a girl,” Belle explains with a shrug, like it's the most normal thing in the world.2018, Tara Sivec, At the Stroke of Midnight
Adjective
frickle (comparative more frickle, superlative most frickle)
- Not solid or firm; loose; friable.
- Vpon this fain and frickle foundation of two false and contrary opinions was that leage of Smalcaldium stroken: whereof ensued that lamentable and cruell warre, to the greate waste and destruction of Germany, with the murder of infinit thousands of men.1565, English Recusant Literature
- it is extremely frickle in the limestone formation;1888 March 3, “The New Emma Silver Mining Company”, in Mining Journal, Railway & Commercial Gazette, volume 58, page 234
- Changeable; undependable; fickle.
- Yvette Guilbert, a greater favourite than ever with the generally frickle and changeable Parisians, has been singing for three nights at Lyons, where she received 1000 francs an evening—that is, ₤40.1893 September 20, “Last Week's Paris”, in The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 3, number 34, page 430
- And thither Jeanne set out, in March 1557, accompanied by the frickle, wayward, sinning Antoine and the boy who was his living image.1911, P. F. William Ryan, Queen Jeanne of Navarre, page 57
Noun (3)
frickle (plural frickles)
Verb
frickle (third-person singular simple present frickles, present participle frickling, simple past and past participle frickled)
- To upset or discombobulate.
- In his own Yorkshire words, they made him 'reet frickled', and any senior officers who came to inspect us never got their messages correctly delivered if poor Thompson was on duty.1988, Olga Pyne Clarke, A Horse in My Kit Bag, page 49
- Linda, at the Deli in Anchorage and the Cup in Tucson, has had spirited run-ins with cooks who did not attack their work with the same ferocity she did. Just last Sunday, a Cup cook "freaked" and got "real frickled” when she put up tickets faster than he liked.2004, Alison Owings, Hey, Waitress!: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray, page 181
- To move, act, or change randomly.
- The ball took a lucky bounce for JSU and frickled away from the goal before a Panther player could capitalize on the rebound, and the game remained scoreless.2006 September 21, Chris Lundy, “Gamecocks Dominate in Home Opener”, in Chanticleer, volume 55, number 4
- I got the porridge going – in the right saucepan mind, while Johnny frickled round my feet and the constant threat of Felix climbing out of his basket, desperate to copy.2022, Beatrice Parvin, Captain Swing and the Blacksmith
- To speckle.
- I was roused from my abstraction, and lo and behold! my stockings were all frickled with blood, and God knows how many lives I had to answer for.1833, John Galt, The Autobiography of John Galt - Volume 1, page 153
- Striped like a zebra, frickled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;1921, La Rassegna nazionale, page 39
Examples of frickle in a sentence
- Using the deep-fryer's wire basket, a slotted spoon, or a spider, remove the frickles to paper towels to absorb extra oil or drain on a wire rack.2013, Josh Lebowitz, Eva Pesantez, Sean Evans, Brother Jimmy's BBQ:
- Finally, I though of something with survival value: I need to get the frickle out of here before anyone sees this tattoo!2016, Adam Bradley, Matt Leyshon, Stuart Hughes, Morpheus Tales, page 146:
- But looking at the above, we can start to understand why when we say "virgin," we mean virgin in the sense that we know virgin today—that she didn't do the old frickle-frackle with Joseph.2020, Scott Douglas, Bethlehem, the Year Jesus Was Born:
- The land which is kept loose and frickle offers opportunity for the plants to grow — then it prevents evaporation and the moisture is stored up for the plants use when the dry season comes.1894, Proceedings of the New York State Agricultural Society, page 551:
Forms of frickle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | frickles |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more frickle |
| superlative | most frickle |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | frickles |
| present participle | frickling |
| past participle | frickled |
| past | frickled |
Origin of frickle
Blend of fried + pickle.
Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).
Words that rhyme with frickle
Questions about frickle
- What does frickle mean?
- Frickle means a fried pickle.
- How do you use frickle in a sentence?
- Using the deep-fryer's wire basket, a slotted spoon, or a spider, remove the frickles to paper towels to absorb extra oil or drain on a wire rack.
- What part of speech is frickle?
- Frickle can be a noun, an interjection, an adjective or a verb.
- What is the plural of frickle?
- The plural of frickle is frickles.
Words near frickle in the dictionary
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