▪ I. frig, v.
(frɪg)
Also frigg.
[? Onomatopœic alteration of frike v.; cf. fridge, fig, fidge vbs.]
† 1. intr. To move about restlessly; to agitate the body or limbs. Cf. fridge v. 1. Obs.
| c 1460 Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 313 A welle blawen bowke thise frygges as frogges. 1598 E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 51 Marke how Seuerus frigs from roome to roome. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i. xi, He would..be often in the dumps, and frig and wriggle it. 1658 Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 955 How ridiculously the barbarous people when they are bitten will frig and frisk. 1719 D'Urfey Pills IV. 124 O! how they do frig it, Jump it and Jigg it. |
† 2. trans. To rub, chafe: = fridge v. 3. Obs.
| a 1529 Skelton E. Rummyng 178 The bore..His rumpe..he frygges Agaynst the hye benche. a 1605 Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 724 Except I were to frig thee with whin stanes. 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. Ep. Ded., As long as the Summers warmth holds on to cocker them, and the days heat to frigge and chafe them [flowers and insects]. |
3. Freq. used with euphemistic force. a. trans. and intr. = fuck v. 1. b. To masturbate.
| 1598 Florio Worlde of Wordes 139 Fricciare, to frig, to wriggle, to tickle. 1680 Rochester Poems on Several Occasions (1950) 14 Poor pensive Lover, in this place, Would Frigg upon his Mothers Face. 1680 Oldham in Ibid. 131 There Punk, perhaps, may thy brave works rehearse, Frigging the senseless thing, with Hand, and Verse. c 1684 Sodom IV. 120, I caught one frigging with a curs bob tayle. a 1749 A. Robertson Poems (1751) 83 So to a House of Office..a School-Boy does repair, To..fr― his P― there. 1858 H. Silver Diary 21 Oct. in G. Ray Thackeray (1955) I. 452 Thackeray says one of the first orders he recḍ [at Charterhouse] was ‘Come & frig me’. 1865 E. Sellon New Epicurean (1875) 11, I frigged and kissed their fragrant cunnies. Ibid. 22 The next minute I had flung her back on the hay, and was frigging away at her maidenhead. c 1888–94 My Secret Life II. 268, I have frigged myself in the streets before entering my house, sooner than fuck her. Ibid., I got up,..frigged my prick, probed her. a 1935 T. E. Lawrence Mint (1950) ii. x. 128 ‘If you ask me, Sir,’ replied Taffy unabashed ‘like a pack of skeletons frigging on a tin roof.’ 1946 Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues 380 High-pressure romancing (find 'em, fool 'em, frig 'em and forget 'em). |
c. fig. Also used as a coarse expletive. Cf. fuck v. 2.
| 1905 S. Joyce in Lett. J. Joyce (1966) II. 104 Cosgrave says it's unfair for you to frig the one idea about love, which he had before he met you. 1936 S. Kingsley Dead End i. 33 Spit: Frig you! 1958 ‘E. McBain’ Killer's Choice (1960) 10 ‘He's telling us politely to go to hell.’ ‘Well, frig him,’ Monoghan said. 1970 L. Meynell Curious Crime of Miss Julia Blossom xi. 153 ‘And what about the rent?’ ‘Frig the rent.’ |
d. [cf. sense 1 and fuck v. 3.] Const. about, around: to muck about, fool around (with). Const. off: to go away, make off.
| 1933 J. Masefield Conway 211 Frig about, to fool around. 1940 Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xx. 272 We do not let the gypsy nor others frig with it [sc. a gun]. 1943 Penguin New Writing XVII. 87 You get an order, and you're frigging around like a pack of schoolgirls for five blinking minutes. 1955 N. Balchin Fall of Sparrow 166 So we've got to move people. See? Not keep them about here frigging around being tested for things. 1960 D. Fearon Murder-on-Thames xx. 188 It's not so easy to frig about with a stiff corpse and not leave bruise marks. 1965 H. C. Rae Skinner iv. xiii. 261 ‘Frig off,’ he said, swinging towards the door. 1967 ‘J. Palmer’ Above & Below iv. 44 He asked to be sent to a fighting unit where he could do something more useful..than frig about with papers. |
4. Comb., as † frig-beard.
| 1708 Motteux Rabelais v. v. 164 Shavers and Frig-beards. |
Hence ˈfrigging vbl. n. (also ppl. a. and quasi-adv.); ˈfrigger1.
In quot. 1736 Friga is a proper name applied to a hermaphodite lover, but the pun is transparent.
| c 1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) 21 Sum luvis lang trollie lolly, And sum of frigging fane. 1598 Florio, Menamenti, stirrings, friggings. 1659 Torriano, Frugatoio..a frigger, a clown, a wriggler up and down. 1707 Indictment J. Marshall for publ. School of Love (P.R.O. 6 Anne KB 28/24/9) My lovely Phil. is..so well versed in the various manners of fucking and frigging as the captain of the virtuosas. 1736 ‘F. Scheffer’ Toast iv. 177 And surpriz'd (well-a-day!) the great Friga and Frow In a Posture—the Muse must not venture to shew! Ibid. 180 Ill presage! And had Friga but made a right Use Of a Hint so instructive, and op'd her own Sluice; Swelling high the Imp's Pool in a Torrent had run. c 1888–94 My Secret Life I. 93 Having come to the conclusion..that frigging makes people mad. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 725 Doing that frigging drawing out the thing by the hour. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel Newsreel v. 63 Station agent's so friggin' tough in this dump. Ibid. 77 When does the friggin' boat go? 1944 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday xii. 78 This shunting frigging new arrangement..has got every flaming thing foxed up. 1951 E. A. Mittelholzer Shadows move among Them i. xv. 145 ‘You have the right spirit—and that's no frigging pun.’ ‘Hendrik! Please! No obscenity!’ 1953 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row xiv. 100 I'm god-damned frigging tired of getting shoved around by you. 1959 K. Waterhouse Billy Liar 40 Take your frigging mucky hands off my pullover. 1962 Observer 4 Mar. 1/6 We cannot go on with this piecemeal frigging around... Now we want to see finality brought about. |
▪ II. frig, n.
(frɪg)
[f. the vb.]
In senses corresponding to the verb (sense 3).
| c 1888–94 My Secret Life V. 171, I pulled out my prick and with two or three frigs spent in a spasm of pain and pleasure. 1941 Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 30 Frigg-up, a confusion, muddle. 1955 M. McCarthy Charmed Life (1956) iii. 70, I don't give a frig about Sinnott's heredity. |
▪ III. frig
see fridge.