frickle

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪkəl

Etymology 1

Blend of fried +‎ pickle

Noun

frickle (plural frickles)

1. (Canada, US) A fried pickle.
   • 2013, Lisa Faulkner, The Way I Cook..., page 41:

     Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20).

   • 2020, Rachel Mansfield, Just the Good Stuff, page 116:

     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.

   • 2013, Josh Lebowitz, Eva Pesantez, Sean Evans, Brother Jimmy's BBQ:

     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.

Etymology 2

Interjection

frickle

1. a minced oath
   • 2008, Sarah Thyre, Dark at the Roots: A Memoir:

     "Frickle frackle,” she said, stomping out.

   • 2013, Charles Raymond, Inspiration:

     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.

   • 2016, Adam Bradley, Matt Leyshon, Stuart Hughes, Morpheus Tales, page 146:

     Finally, I though of something with survival value: I need to get the frickle out of here before anyone sees this tattoo!

Noun

frickle (plural frickles)

1. (euphemistic) A penis.
   • 2016, Therese Oneill, Unmentionable:

     After all, creative positioning during the venereal act (“frickle-frackle!”) can cause fungal growth, cancer, and death.

   • 2018, Tara Sivec, At the Stroke of Midnight:

     "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.

   • 2020, Scott Douglas, Bethlehem, the Year Jesus Was Born:

     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.

Etymology 3

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

Adjective

frickle (comparative more frickle, superlative most frickle)

1. Not solid or firm; loose; friable.
   • 1565, English Recusant Literature:

     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.

   • 1888 March 3, “The New Emma Silver Mining Company”, in Mining Journal, Railway & Commercial Gazette, volume 58, page 234:

     it is extremely frickle in the limestone formation;

   • 1894, Proceedings of the New York State Agricultural Society, page 551:

     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.

2. Changeable; undependable; fickle.
   • 1893 September 20, “Last Week's Paris”, in The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 3, number 34, page 430:

     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.

   • 1911, P. F. William Ryan, Queen Jeanne of Navarre, page 57:

     And thither Jeanne set out, in March 1557, accompanied by the frickle, wayward, sinning Antoine and the boy who was his living image.

   • 1935, Saul Saphire, Lew Earl Winburg, A Tale of Two Kings, page 330:

     And now most of our warriors have forgotten us, and the frickle nation bellows: 'Long live King Absalom!'

   • 1969, Parliamentary Debates of the National Assembly (Hansard)., page 128:

     Is the hon. Member also aware that Opposition Members are frickle minded, even though they are not here

   • 2006, M Deuze, Liquid Life, Convergence Culture and Media Work:

     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).

   • 2022, Vikas Soni, The Black Heart:

     It's only because our mind is frickle and so they easily bounce back at times.

   • 2022, Kausiki Books, Mahabharata Udyoga Parva Part 1 in English:

     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.

Noun

frickle (plural frickles)

1. A prickling, shivery sensation; frisson.
   • 1988, The OtherSide - Issues 72-83, page 23:

     at the frickle of apprehension ( real or imaginary ) on any issue.

   • 2018, Fin J Ross, A.K.A. Fudgepuddle:

     As I slowly open my eyes, I get that somefeeli's-watching-me frickle.

Verb

frickle (third-person singular simple present frickles, present participle frickling, simple past and past participle frickled)

1. To upset or discombobulate.
   • 1988, Olga Pyne Clarke, A Horse in My Kit Bag, page 49:

     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.

   • 2004, Alison Owings, Hey, Waitress!: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray, page 181:

     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.

   • 2011, David Brin, Infinity's Shore:

     Sometimes the noise changed pitch and made my scales frickle, sounding like the moan of a doomed wooden ship when it runs aground.

   • 2021, Shubham Srivastava, Retribution: Collection of Rage Poetry:

     Meagre flees can't frickle this mad villany

2. To move, act, or change randomly.
   • 2006 September 21, Chris Lundy, “Gamecocks Dominate in Home Opener”, in Chanticleer, volume 55, number 4:

     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.

   • 2022, Beatrice Parvin, Captain Swing and the Blacksmith:

     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, Deblina Bhattacharya, Mindscape, page 95:

     Mood became frickled from sudden smile to very rude.

3. To speckle.
   • 1833, John Galt, The Autobiography of John Galt - Volume 1, page 153:

     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.

   • 1921, La Rassegna nazionale, page 39:

     Striped like a zebra, frickled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd;

   • 2002, James E. Frazier, Transformation of a Common Man, page 205:

     Blood frickled from the holes.

Anagrams

• Flicker, fickler, flicker

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

frickle

1. inflection of frickeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative