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frickle en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Blend of fried + pickle.

Meanings

1. (Canada, US) A fried pickle.
   • Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20). 2013, Lisa Faulkner, The Way I Cook..., page 41:
   • Raise your hand if you love fried pickies (both my hands are raised). There is no stopping my love for pickle-anything, but frickles take it to a whole new level. 2020, Rachel Mansfield, Just the Good Stuff, page 116:
   • Using the deep-fryer's wire basket, a slotted spoon, or a spider, remove the frickles to paper towels to absorb extra oil or drain on a wire rack. 2013, Josh Lebowitz, Eva Pesantez, Sean Evans, Brother Jimmy's BBQ:

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frickle en · INTJ · etymology 2

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1. a minced oath
   • Finally, I though of something with survival value: I need to get the frickle out of here before anyone sees this tattoo! 2016, Adam Bradley, Matt Leyshon, Stuart Hughes, Morpheus Tales, page 146:
   • "Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out. 2008, Sarah Thyre, Dark at the Roots: A Memoir:
   • I know that they loved me and all that frickle-feely stuff, surely wanted the best but I didn't care too much for love—at least not now. 2013, Charles Raymond, Inspiration:

frickle en · NOUN · etymology 2

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1. (euphemistic) A penis.
   • But looking at the above, we can start to understand why when we say "virgin," we mean virgin in the sense that we know virgin today—that she didn't do the old frickle-frackle with Joseph. 2020, Scott Douglas, Bethlehem, the Year Jesus Was Born:
   • After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death. 2016, Therese Oneill, Unmentionable:
   • "A frickle is for a boy and a frackle is for a girl,” Belle explains with a shrug, like it's the most normal thing in the world. 2018, Tara Sivec, At the Stroke of Midnight:

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frickle en · ADJ · etymology 3

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).

Meanings

1. Not solid or firm; loose; friable.
   • Vpon this fain and frickle foundation of two false and contrary opinions was that leage of Smalcaldium stroken: whereof ensued that lamentable and cruell warre, to the greate waste and destruction of Germany, with the murder of infinit thousands of men. 1565, English Recusant Literature:
   • The land which is kept loose and frickle offers opportunity for the plants to grow — then it prevents evaporation and the moisture is stored up for the plants use when the dry season comes. 1894, Proceedings of the New York State Agricultural Society, page 551:
   • it is extremely frickle in the limestone formation; 1888 March 3, “The New Emma Silver Mining Company”, in Mining Journal, Railway & Commercial Gazette, volume 58, page 234:
2. Changeable; undependable; fickle.
   • And thither Jeanne set out, in March 1557, accompanied by the frickle, wayward, sinning Antoine and the boy who was his living image. 1911, P. F. William Ryan, Queen Jeanne of Navarre, page 57:
   • It's only because our mind is frickle and so they easily bounce back at times. 2022, Vikas Soni, The Black Heart:
   • Is the hon. Member also aware that Opposition Members are frickle minded, even though they are not here 1969, Parliamentary Debates of the National Assembly (Hansard)., page 128:
   • The making of friends by that man is not certain, who is of an unsteady mind, or who does not serve old men, or who is not constant in his opinions, or who is of a frickle disposition. 2022, Kausiki Books, Mahabharata Udyoga Parva Part 1 in English:
   • And now most of our warriors have forgotten us, and the frickle nation bellows: 'Long live King Absalom!' 1935, Saul Saphire, Lew Earl Winburg, A Tale of Two Kings, page 330:
   • Yvette Guilbert, a greater favourite than ever with the generally frickle and changeable Parisians, has been singing for three nights at Lyons, where she received 1000 francs an evening—that is, ₤40. 1893 September 20, “Last Week's Paris”, in The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 3, number 34, page 430:
   • It is perhaps the perfect paradox of contemporary liquid life: all the trends in today’s work-life quite clearly suggest a rapid destabilization of social bonds corresponding with increasingly disempowering effects of a frickle and uncertain global high-tech information economy, yet those workers caught in the epicenter of this bewildering shift express a sense of mastery over their lives, interpreting their professional identity in this context in terms of indvidual-level control and empowering agency (du Gay, 1996; Storey et al, 2005). 2006, M Deuze, Liquid Life, Convergence Culture and Media Work:

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frickle en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).

Meanings

1. A prickling, shivery sensation; frisson.
   • As I slowly open my eyes, I get that somefeeli's-watching-me frickle. 2018, Fin J Ross, A.K.A. Fudgepuddle:
   • at the frickle of apprehension ( real or imaginary ) on any issue. 1988, The OtherSide - Issues 72-83, page 23:

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frickle en · VERB · etymology 3

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from dialectal frick (“to move briskly, fidget”) + -le. Alternatively, perhaps related to German Low German friggeln, a variant of wriggeln (“to wriggle”).

Meanings

1. To upset or discombobulate.
   • Meagre flees can't frickle this mad villany 2021, Shubham Srivastava, Retribution: Collection of Rage Poetry:
   • Sometimes the noise changed pitch and made my scales frickle, sounding like the moan of a doomed wooden ship when it runs aground. 2011, David Brin, Infinity's Shore:
   • In his own Yorkshire words, they made him 'reet frickled', and any senior officers who came to inspect us never got their messages correctly delivered if poor Thompson was on duty. 1988, Olga Pyne Clarke, A Horse in My Kit Bag, page 49:
   • Linda, at the Deli in Anchorage and the Cup in Tucson, has had spirited run-ins with cooks who did not attack their work with the same ferocity she did. Just last Sunday, a Cup cook "freaked" and got "real frickled” when she put up tickets faster than he liked. 2004, Alison Owings, Hey, Waitress!: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray, page 181:
2. To move, act, or change randomly.
   • I got the porridge going – in the right saucepan mind, while Johnny frickled round my feet and the constant threat of Felix climbing out of his basket, desperate to copy. 2022, Beatrice Parvin, Captain Swing and the Blacksmith:
   • The ball took a lucky bounce for JSU and frickled away from the goal before a Panther player could capitalize on the rebound, and the game remained scoreless. 2006 September 21, Chris Lundy, “Gamecocks Dominate in Home Opener”, in Chanticleer, volume 55, number 4:
   • Mood became frickled from sudden smile to very rude. 2022, Deblina Bhattacharya, Mindscape, page 95:
3. To speckle.
   • Blood frickled from the holes. 2002, James E. Frazier, Transformation of a Common Man, page 205:
   • Striped like a zebra, frickled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd; 1921, La Rassegna nazionale, page 39:
   • I was roused from my abstraction, and lo and behold! my stockings were all frickled with blood, and God knows how many lives I had to answer for. 1833, John Galt, The Autobiography of John Galt - Volume 1, page 153:

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