Adj. and adv. (vulgar).—An expletive of intensification. Thus, frigging
bad = ‘bloody’ bad; a frigging idiot = an absolute fool. See also
Foutering and Fucking.
Frightfully, adv. (colloquial).—Very. An expletive used as are awfully,
beastly, bloody, etc. (q.v.).
Frig-pig, subs. (old).—A finnicking trifler.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
Frigster (in fem. Frigstress) subs. (venery).—A masturbator; an
indorser (q.v., also = a Sodomite).
Frillery, subs. (common).—Feminine underclothing. For synonyms, see
Snowy. To explore one’s frillery (venery) = to grope one’s person.
Frills, subs. (American).—Swagger; conceit; also accomplishments (as
music, languages, etc.); and culture; cf., Man with no frills.
1870. Sacramento Paper (quoted in De Vere). ‘I can’t bear his talk,
it’s all frills.’
1884. Clemens (‘Mark Twain’), Adventures of Huck Finn. 33. I never
see such a son. I bet I’ll take some of these frills out of you
before I’m done with you.
To put on one’s frills, verb. phr. (American).—To exaggerate; to chant
the poker; to swagger; to put on side (q.v.); to sing it (q.v.). Fr.,
se gonfler le jabot, and faire son lard.
1890. Rudyard Kipling, National Observer, March, 1890, p. 69. ‘The
Oont.’ It’s the commissariat camel putting on his blooming frills.
2. (venery).—To get wanton or prick-proud (q.v.); in a state of must
(q.v.).
To have been among one’s frills, verb. phr. (venery).—To have enjoyed
the sexual favour. For synonyms, see Greens.
Frint, subs. (old).—A pawnbroker. For synonyms, see Uncle.
1821. Real Life in London, i., p. 566.
Frisco, subs. (American).—Short for San Francisco.
1870. Bret Harte, Poems, ‘Chiquita.’ Busted hisself at White Pine,
and blew out his brains down in Frisco.
1890. Sporting Life, 8 Nov. The battle ... took place in the
theatre, Market St., Frisco.
Frisk, subs. (old).—1. A frolic; an outing; a lark (q.v.); mischief
generally.
1697. Vanbrugh, Provoked Wife, iii., 1. If you have a mind to take
a frisk with us, I have an interest with my lord; I can easily
introduce you.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1825. The English Spy, vi., p. 162. Dick’s a trump and no
telegraph—up to every frisk, and down to every move of the domini,
thoroughbred and no want of courage.
1852. Dickens, Bleak House, ch. xx., p. 171. ‘When you and I had
the frisk down in Lincolnshire, Guppy, and drove over to see that
house at Castle Wold.’