† Frig

v. Obs. Also frigg. [? Onomatopœic alteration of FRIKE v.; cf. FRIDGE, FIG, FIDGE vbs.]

  1.  intr. To move about restlessly; to agitate the body or limbs. Cf. FRIDGE v. 1.

c. 1460.  Towneley Myst. (Surtees), 313. A welle blawen bowke thise frygges as frogges.

1598.  E. Gilpin, Skial. (1878), 51.

1653.  Urquhart, Rabelais, I. xi. He would strike out of the cold iron, be often in the dumps, and frig and wriggle it.

1658.  Rowland, Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 955. The Gnats in America, especially those they call Yetin, do so slash and cut, that they will pierce through very thick cloathing. So that it is excellent sport to behold how ridiculously the barbarous people when they are bitten will frig and frisk, and slap with their hands their thighs, buttocks, shoulders, arms, sides, even as a carter doth his horses.

1719.  D’Urfey, Pills, IV. 124.

  2.  trans. To rub, chafe: = FRIDGE v. 3.

a. 1529.  Skelton, E. Rummyng, 177.

a. 1605.  Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 724. Except I were to frig thee with whin stanes.

1674.  N. Fairfax, A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World, Ep. Ded. Last as long as the Summers warmth holds on to cocker them, and the days heat to frigge and chafe them [flowers and insects].

  3.  Comb., as frig-beard.

1708.  Motteux, Rabelais, V. v. 164. Shavers and Frig-beards.

  Hence † Frigging vbl. sb. Also † Frigger.

c. 1560.  A. Scott, Poems (S. T. S.), 21.

1598.  Florio, Menamenti, stirrings, friggings.

1659.  Torriano, Frugatoio … a frigger, a clown, a wriggler up and down.