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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
frig

"to move about restlessly," mid-15c., perhaps a variant of frisk (q.v.). As a euphemism for "to fuck" it dates from 1550s (frigging); from 1670s as "to masturbate." Related: Frigged; frigging.

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frig

Etymology 1 n. 1 an act of frigging 2 A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed) 3 a fuck vb. 1 (context intransitive obsolete English) to fidget, to wriggle around 2 (context ambitransitive English) to masturbate 3 (context ambitransitive English) to fuck (misapplied euphemism) 4 (context intransitive English) to mess or muck (''about, around'' etc.) 5 (context ambitransitive English) to make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate Etymology 2

n. a fridge

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Frig

Frig may refer to:

  • Frig (Anglo-Saxon goddess), a love goddess in Anglo-Saxon paganism
  • Frig (interjection), an English word
  • Len Frig (born 1950), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
Frig (interjection)

Frig is an interjection in the English language that expresses contempt. The word can be used as a euphemism for fuck or to refer to masturbation or sexual intercourse. The participle form frigging is used as an adjective to express annoyance or frustration. Oxford University Press' Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang argues that frig originally meant to move restlessly. A different etymology is proposed by Oxford University Press' Dictionary of Euphemisms, which argues that frig initially meant to rub and developed its sexual meanings from this origin; this dictionary further argues that the modern meanings of the word are not derived from the Cornish word frig, meaning wife, or from the Germanic deity Frigg, the wife of Odin. The deity Frigg has sometimes been referred to in recent times as "Friga" or "Frigga" in order to distance her from the English word frig. The word's use as a synonym for masturbate dates to 1598 in the United Kingdom, while its use as a euphemism for fuck dates to 1879 in the United Kingdom. Frig has entered the Australian English lexicon. In the U.S. state of Maine, frig does not have the sexual connotations that it has elsewhere, and has gained social acceptance in the phrase frig around meaning to fool around or to putter around.

Usage examples of "frig".

Public Works had their own frigging jet at the far end of the airport.

Tynan again, strangely enough, and this time telling those yobs just how bad crime had gotten here in Dublin with the frigging jackals and hyenas and wolves doing their own take on the Celtic Tiger rigamarole?

It took major work to push the button through the frigging buttonhole on his collar.

You survive battles, and almost lose a hand to a saw, a frigging handsaw.

Well, now you can understand why all I can think about is frigging parallels and doomed histories repeating themselves.

Abbie frigging Hoffstein and this is the University of Southern goddamn California.

Is there anything that will make me want to wring your miserable frigging necks less than I want to wring them right now?

What kind of frigging namby-pamby question was that for a member of the Pentagon press corps to ask the Secretary of Defense?

And she took her favorite pieces with her, filled a frigging moving van with stuff.

I mean to stick to you like white on rice until you and me together get me out of this frigging mess!

I have a right to privacy, at least for my frigging thoughts, so just stay the hell out of my head unless I invite you in!

That was a day to forget: out there on the footpath boiling in the frigging sun all day, ready to grab people and throttle them until they dropped money in his hat.

The tire tracks of everybody of any importance in the whole frigging state can be found on that drive.

And how did a piece of slime like Phil Frigging Skink get the estimable Troy Jefferson, with his overt political ambitions, to offer a lowball plea in the first place?

Ah tried tae gie thum a wee frig, the pair ay thum at the same time, but they both goat a bit funny.