'Scourge' (1598)]; to chuff; to chuffer; to claw (Florio); to digitate (of women); to eat (or get) cock-roaches; to bring up (or off) by hand; to fight one's turkey (Texan); to finger or finger-fuck (of women); to friggle (Florio); to fuck one's fist (of men); to fetch mettle (Grose); to handle; to indorse; to jerk, play, pump, toss, or work off; to lark; to milk; to mount a corporal and four; to mess, or pull about; to play with (schoolboys'), to rub up; to shag; to tickle one's crack (of women); to dash one's doodle; to touch up; to play paw-paw tricks (Grose); to wriggle (old). For foreign synonyms, see Wriggle.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes Fricciare . . . to frig, to wriggle, to tickle.
1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie, Branler la pique, To Frig.
1728. Bailey, Dict., s.v. Frig, to rub.
c. 1716-1746. Robertson of Struan. Poems, 83. So to a House of office . . . a School-Boy does repair, To . . . fr his P there.
1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue., s.v.
Frigate, subs. (common).—A
woman.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew. Friggat well rigg'd, a woman well drest and gentile.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue. A well-rigg'd frigate, a well-dressed wench.
Frigging, subs. (venery).—1. The act
of masturbation; the 'cynick friction'
(Marston, Scourge); otherwise
simple infanticide.
2. (old).—Trifling [Grose, 1785.]
Adj. and adv. (vulgar).—An expletive of intensification. Thus, frigging bad = 'bloody' bad; a frigging idiot = an absolute fool. See also Foutering and Fucking.
Frightfully, adv. (colloquial).—Very.
An expletive used as
are awfully, beastly, bloody,
etc. (q.v.).
Frig-pig, subs. (old).—A finnicking
trifler.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
Frigster (in fem. Frigstress)
subs. (venery).—A masturbator;
an indorser (q.v., also = a
Sodomite).
Frillery, subs. (common).—Feminine
underclothing. For
synonyms, see Snowy. To explore
one's frillery (venery)
= to grope one's person.
Frills, subs. (American).—Swagger;
conceit; also accomplishments
(as music, languages,
etc.); and culture; cf., Man
with no frills.
1870. Sacramento Paper (quoted in De Vere). 'I can't bear his talk, it's all frills.'
1884. Clemens ('Mark Twain'), Adventures of Huck, Finn. 33. I never see such a son. I bet I'll take some of these frills out of you before I'm done with you.
to put on one's frills, verb. phr. (American).—To exaggerate; to chant the poker; to swagger; to put on side (q.v.); to sing it (q.v.). Fr., se gonfler le jabot, and faire son lard.
1890. Rudyard Kipling National Observer, March, 1890, p. 69. 'The Oont.' It's the commissariat camel putting on his blooming frills.
