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▪ I. fridge, v.|frɪdʒ|
Also frig.
[App. onomatopœic; cf. fidge, fig.]
†1. intr. To move restlessly (about or up and down); to fidget. Cf. fidge v. Obs.
a1550Hye way to Spyttel-ho. 394 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 44 At euery doore there they foot and frydge. 1617Markham Caval. v. 23 Whilest you currie your Horse, if hee keepe a fridging vp and downe..it is a signe your Currie⁓combe is too sharpe. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. iii. xxii, So must it..rub against the Stars, surround the Sun..Then swiftly fridge about the pallid Moon. 1681Halliwell Melampronoea 3 The little Motes or Atoms that fridge, and play in the Beams of the sun.
†2. To chafe, rub, scrape (against or upon). Obs.
1617Markham Caval. iii. 70 His spurs also must needes fridge vpon his sides. 1651H. More Second Lash (1655) II. 213 The parts fridge one against another uncessantly.
3. trans. To rub, fray, chafe; to wear away by rubbing. Also with off. Now chiefly dial.
1617[see the vbl. n.] 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. iv, You might have..fretted and fridged the outside of them all to pieces. 1781J. Hutton Tour to Caves Gloss., Fridge, to rub in pieces. 1788Marshall Rural Econ., E. Yorks. (E.D.S.), Fridge, to chafe, to wear or injure by friction. 1848A. B. Evans Leicestersh. Words, etc., Fridge, To fray, chafe, or ‘rough up’..‘These stockings won't fridge you so much as coarse ones’. 1857Mrs. Gatty Parables fr. Nat. (1859) II. 33 The Spruce-fir next him had come so close that its branches fridged off little pieces of his..bark.
†4. ? To jerk or scrape out. Obs.—1
1676H. More Remarks xxxiii. 132 The immersion of the Tube may be made so obliquely and leasurely as neither to press out nor fridge out any mercurial effluvia.
Hence ˈfridging vbl. n.
1617Markham Caval. ii. 79 Yet when you strike, to strike freely and soundly, for the tickling or fridging of a horse with the spurre is a grosse fault. 1668H. More Div. Dial. i. x. (1713) 19 By the mutual fridging of those Particles one against another. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 831 The meer Fridging up and down, of the Parts of an Extended Substance, changing their Place. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1756) I. 333 By the Fridging, etc. in Riding, the Serum or watery Part of the Blood is gathered between the two Skins.
▪ II. fridge, n.|frɪdʒ|
Also frig.
Colloq. abbrev. of refrigerator 2.
The proprietary name Frigidaire may also have contributed to the currency of the shortened form frig. Cf. also frigerator in D.A. (quots. 1886, 1909).
1926E. F. Spanner Broken Trident xvi. 181 Best part of our stuff here is chilled, and with no 'frig plant working, the mercury will climb like a rocket. 1935C. Brooks Frame-Up xix. 243 Do you mean that you keep a dead body in a fridge waiting for the right moment to bring her out? 1939M. Dickens One Pair of Hands xii. 198 Your frig is out of order and the trifle hasn't got cold. 1946News Chron. 25 Feb. 3/7 (heading) A Communal ‘Frig.’ with 300 Lockers. 1954I. Murdoch Under Net vi. 90 In the fridge was salmon, raspberries and considerable quantities of butter, milk and cheese. 1955G. Greene Quiet American 90 We haven't a frig—we send out for ice. 1960[see blink n.2 1 d]. 1971Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 21 Mar. 2/2 We usually landed more than could be eaten fresh and having no fridge, dressed the surplus fillets with smoked salt and hung them up to dry.
b. fridge-freezer, an upright unit comprising a refrigerator and a freezer, each self-contained; fridge-heater, a machine that uses the heat extracted by a refrigerator to provide hot water.
1971Homes & Gardens Aug. 84/2 Two-door *fridge-freezers are becoming ever more popular. 1985Times 9 Aug. 11/3 The prize..is well worth winning and calls for a strong effort by big companies if, as with fridge-freezers and vacuum cleaners, they [sc. British firms] have firm evidence to offer. 1957Archit. Rev. CXXI. 459/2 Also on the ground floor is a demonstration larder for the new Ferranti ‘*fridge-heater’ with an adjacent tea-kitchen that serves the entire premises; the fridge-heater cools the larder and at the same time produces hot water for the tea-kitchen. |