fridging

Verb (1)

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

1. (informal, transitive) To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate.
   • 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.2007, Lucy Diamond [pseudonym; Sue Mongredien], Any Way You Want Me, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 201
2. (slang, transitive) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and motivate vengeance.
   • 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).2013 April 26, Siobhan Whitebread, “Welcome to the Punch: A Little Less Conversation [film review]”, in Sophie Harrison, editor, Spark*: The University of Reading’s Student Newspaper, volume 63...

Verb (2)

fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To chafe or rub (something).
   • A Man's body and his mind, with the utmoſt reverence to both I ſpeak it, are exactly like a jerkin, and a jerkin's lining;—rumple the one—you rumple the other. There is one certain exception however in this caſe, and that is, when you are ſo fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of a...1761, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume III, London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, pages 13–15
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To chafe or rub.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) Synonym of fidge (“to jostle or shake; to fidget, to fig, to frig”).

   Synonyms:

   fidge

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