Friggle

[Wilson Gray]

In the OEDOL only as a version of "wriggle.''

Found elsewhere as a diminutive of "frig":

www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/friggle

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Friggle

Also a Proper Name.

-Wilson

On Dec 5, 2007 10:56 AM, neil <neil at typog.co.uk> wrote:
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       neil <neil at TYPOG.CO.UK>
> Subject:      Friggle
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Friggle: not in my Shorter OED, but I believe in Merriam-Webster (which I
> haven't got).
>
> Can anyone enlighten me to the meaning...
>
> " Imagine! Friggling away with a tax-collector's daughter. And him away!"
>
> "And faith! Who wouldst thou have me friggle with?'
>
> - Frank Borden Hanes, 'Abel Anders: A Narrative',
> Farrar, Straus and Young, 1951, 57
>
> -- Neil Crawford
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>



--
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-----
                                              -Sam'l Clemens

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org