frice en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /fɹaɪs/
Etymology
As if to continue the sequence once, twice, thrice with four.
Meanings
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(humorous, nonstandard, not-comparable, rare) four times
I've been caught out once or twice or thrice or frice.
2001 August 4, "Alan T Gower", “Seconds from Disaster”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet), message-ID <3b6bac29$0$3761$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>:Our sacred boost is now finally perfected! As powerful as can be... and FRICE can you use it!
2015, “Chumbucket”, in Mad Max, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment:Three cheers for scratch: Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huz-ZAH! Not only do I get to see it now, but I got to say huzzah thrice! Well, I guess now it's frice.
2001 February 7, "Joe", “Linnell finds the camera!”, in alt.music.tmbg (Usenet), message-ID <95sa2g$debts$1@ID-50051.news.dfncis.de>:[…] not once or twice or thrice or frice, but many times, and always under awkward conditions.
1999, John R. Erickson, Gerald L. Holmes, Every dog has his day:[…] and wince, she says, and twice and thrice and frice and fice and sice and seven-up sits the Star of the County Down […]
2001, Benedict Kiely, The collected stories of Benedict Kiely: