frug
/fɹʌɡ/noun, verb
frug is a noun meaning “A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-U-G, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frug is frugs.
What does frug mean?
noun
- 1
A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.
verb
- 1
To perform this dance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce frug?
- /fɹʌɡ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-frug.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of frug
- frugs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- frugging participle, present
- frugged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frug?
Frug appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does frug come from?
Unknown. Perhaps related to frig.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).