1926 E. 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.

1935 C. 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?

1939 M. Dickens One Pair of Hands xii. 198 Your frig is out of order and the trifle hasn't got cold.

1946 News Chron. 25 Feb. 3/7 (heading) A Communal ‘Frig.’ with 300 Lockers.

1954 I. Murdoch Under Net vi. 90 In the fridge was salmon, raspberries and considerable quantities of butter, milk and cheese.

1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. 90 We haven't a frig—we send out for ice.

1960 ‘J. Ashford’ Counsel for Def. vi. 68 No good, David. The 'frig. is on the blink again.

1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 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.

1971 Homes & Gardens Aug. 84/2 Two-door fridge-freezers are becoming ever more popular.

1985 Times 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.

1957 Archit. Rev. 121 459/2 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.

a1550 Hye way to Spyttel-ho. 394 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 44 At euery doore there they foot and frydge.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice v. 22 Whilst you currie your horse, if hee keepe a fridging vp and downe..it is a signe your currie combe is too sharpe.

1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. H8^v So must it..rubbe against the stares, surround the sunne.., Then swiftly fridge about the pallid moon.

1681 H. Hallywell Melampronoea 3 The little Motes or Atoms that fridge and play in the Beams of the Sun.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice iii. 59 His spurres also must needes fridge vpon his sides.

1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1655) II. 213 The parts fridge one against another uncessantly.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. iv. 14 You might have..fretted and fridged the outsides of them all to pieces.

1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. Fridge, to rub in pieces.

1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 330 Fridge, to chafe;..to wear or injure by friction.

1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words , Fridge To fray, chafe, or ‘rough up’..‘These stockings won't fridge you so much as coarse ones’.

1857 M. Gatty Parables 2nd Ser. 33 The Spruce fir next him had come so close that its branches fridged off little pieces of his..bark.

1676 H. More Remarks 2 Disc. 132 The immersion of the Tube may be made so obliquely and leasurely as neither to press out nor fridge out any mercurial effluvia.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 79 Yet when you strike, to strike freely, & soundly, for the tickling or fridging of a horse with the spurre is a grosse fault.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) i. x. 19 By the mutual fridging of those Particles one against another.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 831 The meer Fridging up and..down, of the Parts of an Extended Substance, changing their Place.

1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xli. 567 By the Fridging, etc. in Riding, the Serum or watry Part of the Blood is gathered between the two Skins.