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flidge
English
Verb
flidge (third-person singular simple present flidges, present participle flidging, simple past and past participle flidged)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To become fledged; to fledge.
- R. Greene
- Every day build their nests, every hour flidge.
- R. Greene
Adjective
flidge (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Fledged.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
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fridge
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /f??d??/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Etymology 1
The noun is a clipping of refrigerator, perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator (“(dated) refrigerator”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Noun
fridge (plural fridges)
- (informal) A refrigerator. [from 1920s]
Alternative forms
- 'fridge
- frig (dated)
Derived terms
- fridge-freezer
- fridgeful
- fridgeless
- fridge magnet
Translations
Verb
fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)
- (transitive, informal) To place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate.
Etymology 2
From fridge (“to place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill”), alluding to “women in refrigerators”, a phrase coined by the American comic book writer Gail Simone, who criticized a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994) in which Kyle Rayner, the Green Lantern, comes home to discover that the villain Major Force has murdered his girlfriend Alexandra DeWitt and left her body for him to find in the refrigerator.
Verb
fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)
- (transitive, fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s).
Translations
Etymology 3
Probably imitative of the sound of chafing or rubbing.
Verb
fridge (third-person singular simple present fridges, present participle fridging, simple past and past participle fridged)
- (transitive, archaic, chiefly Britain, dialectal) To chafe or rub (something).
- (intransitive, obsolete)
- To chafe or rub.
- Synonym of fidge (“to jostle or shake; to fidget, to fig, to frig”)
Translations
References
Further reading
- refrigerator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Women in Refrigerators on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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