Fridge or frig?
fridge is a noun meaning “A refrigerator”; frig is a verb meaning “To masturbate”. Use fridge as a noun and frig as a verb (frig is also a noun: “An act of frigging”). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) fridge is about 56 times as common as frig.
What is the difference between fridge and frig?
| fridge | frig | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | verb, noun, interjection |
| Meaning | informalA refrigerator informalTo place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate | To break An act of frigging A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed) |
| Example | The fridge protecting the snacks | She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library |
| Forms | fridges 'fridges | frigs, frigging, frigged |
| Pronunciation | /fɹɪd͡ʒ/ | /fɹɪɡ/ /fɹɪd͡ʒ/ |
| In writing | 10 times per million words | about once in every 5 million words |
Sources: fridge and frig in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of fridge and frig
fridge
- 1
informalA refrigerator
- 2
informalTo place (something) inside a refrigerator to chill; to refrigerate
- 3
Alternative form of fridge (refrigerator)
- 4
derogatoryoffensiveA fat woman
The fridge protecting the snacks
- 5
slangTo gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove (a character, usually female) from a narrative, often strictly to hurt another character (usually male) and motivate vengeance
frig
- 1
slangTo masturbate
She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library
- 2
An act of frigging
- 3
Dated spelling of fridge
- 4
slangvulgarTo fuck; to have sex
Come on, honey, let’s frig
- 5
A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed)
I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now
- 6
slangTo mess or muck usually with about or around'
Be sensible; you’re just frigging about now
- 7
slangvulgarA fuck
I don’t give a frig!
- 8
To break
Where’s you get this ladder from? It’s frigged!
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, fridge or frig?
fridge appears 10 times per million words; frig about once in every 5 million words.
fridge 10 times per million wordsfrig about once in every 5 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).