frigger

frigger

See also: Frigger

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪɡə/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)

Etymology 1

    From frig + -er.

    Noun

    frigger (plural friggers)

    1. (obsolete) Someone who leaps or moves about; a clown.
    2. (slang, rare) The penis.
      • 1684, John Rochester (attributed), Sodom:
        Great Bolloxinians frigger beats allarmes, / By unctious poyson in her Cunt infus’d.
      • 1927, Hart Crane, letter, Jan–Feb:
        There once was a cannibal nigger / Who ate up his enemy's frigger; / His dozens of wives / Had the time of their lives; / He grew bigger and bigger and BIGGER.
    3. (slang) Someone who frigs; a masturbator.
    4. (mildly vulgar) A disagreeable or objectionable person.
    5. (Australia, slang, derogatory) A stereotypical rural Australian, typically wearing plain denim jeans, singlets and cowboy hat.
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    Etymology 2

    Unknown.

    Noun

    frigger (plural friggers)

    1. (glassblowing) An object made by a glassmaker (or, later, other craftsmen), as an ornament, a testing sample, or a test of skill.

    References

    • frigger, The F-Word, by Jesse Sheidlower, Lewis Black, 2009, page 198.
    • (crafted object) The Frigger Makers by Arnold Rattenbury, →ISBN
    • (crafted object) frigger, The teen-ager's guide to collecting practically anything, by Norah Smaridge, Hilda Hunter, 1972, page 69.