Meaning

3 senses
  1. To upset or discombobulate.

  2. To move, act, or change randomly.

  3. To speckle.

Origin

Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively,

Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).

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Forms

frickles, frickling, frickled, frickled
Base formfrickle · to frickle
3rd person singularfrickles
Present participlefrickling
Past simplefrickled
Past participlefrickled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfrickle
he, she, itfrickles

Past simpleLesson

all personsfrickled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave frickled
he, she, ithas frickled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill frickle

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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