Meaning

4 senses

  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).

    I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now.

  3. (euphemistic, mildly, slang, vulgar)A fuck.

    I don’t give a frig!

  4. Dated spelling of fridge.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. He has lost his frigging mind.

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  2. Only your frigging job matters.

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  3. Algerian food is frigging delicious.

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  4. Yanni finds Algiers so frigging cool.

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Origin

From Middle English friggen (“to quiver”), perhaps from Old English *frygian (“to rub, car

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.

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Forms

plural: frigs / friges
Singularfrig
Pluralfrigs / friges

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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