frig
/fɹɪɡ//fɹɪd͡ʒ/
frig verb: to masturbate. Also the euphemistic form of fuck.
Verb
frig (third-person singular simple present frigs, present participle frigging, simple past and past participle frigged)
- To masturbate.
- 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."1880, anonymous author, The Pearl
- Synonyms:
- fap
- To fuck; to have sex.
- Come on, honey, let’s frig.
- Not that we didn’t frig in the day-time too.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 113
- Synonyms:
- eff
- To mess or muck usually with about or around'.
- Be sensible; you’re just frigging about now.
- Synonyms:
- fiddle around, fool around, fuck around
- To break.
- Where’s you get this ladder from? It’s frigged!
- To make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate.
- The system wasn't working but I've frigged the data and it's usable now.
- Synonyms:
- bodge
Noun (1)
frig (plural frigs)
- An act of frigging.
- A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed).
- I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now.
- A fuck.
- I don’t give a frig!
Noun (2)
frig (plural friges)
- Dated spelling of fridge.
- "Perhaps you prefer beer - there's plenty in the frig."1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 139
Proper noun capitalized: Frig
Frig
- Alternative form of Frigg.
- The cult of the fertility goddess Frig is sufficiently proved by the occurrence of her name in the Old English Frigedæg, the modern Friday. But no place of her worship has yet been identified with complete certainty, and her name was not used in the formation of English personal names. Seaxneat...1943, F[rank] M[erry] Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, Oxon: At the Clarendon Press, page 98
- Alternatively, this group might consist of the goddess Frig, associated with two other female deities (possibly Eostre and Hretha?) – but we cannot be certain that the Anglo-Saxons worshipped Frig.2009, Marilyn Dunn, The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597–c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife, Continuum, published 2010, →ISBN, page 63
Also used as
frig is also the euphemistic form of fuck.
Examples of frig in a sentence
- Will you get out of the frigging bathroom? We're already running late.
- What do you frigging mean by waking me up at this time of night?
- He thinks he can frigging sing.
Synonyms of frig
2 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- copulate with
- patch
Forms of frig
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | frigs |
| present participle | frigging |
| past participle | frigged |
| past | frigged |
| Noun | |
| plural | frigs |
| plural | friges |
Origin of frig
From Middle English friggen (“to quiver”), perhaps from Old English *frygian (“to rub, caress”), related to Old English frēogan, frīgan (“to love, release, embrace, caress”), frīge (pl., “love”). Compare also Faroese fríggj (“erotocism, sex, flirtation”), Old English ġefrīgian (“to embrace”). More at free. Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge), from Middle English frikien (“to keep (the arms and hands) in constant motion”), from Old English frician (“to dance”).
See fridge.
Learned borrowing from Old English Frīġ.
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Questions about frig
- What does frig mean?
- Frig means to masturbate.
- What part of speech is frig?
- Frig can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce frig?
- Frig is pronounced /fɹɪɡ/.
- What is the past tense of frig?
- The past tense of frig is frigged.
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