to frig off
1
9.9
- phrasal verb
- Offensive
:
vete a la mierda
- Fed up with the interruptions, I told everyone to frig off and let me work.
Examples
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Just frig off and leave me alone!
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The comment was so rude that she told him to frig off immediately.
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If you don't like my opinion, you can just frig off.
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He told her to frig off after the argument.
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Frig off! I don't want to talk to you right now.
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When he wouldn't stop bothering me, I finally told him to frig off.
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She was so annoyed that she shouted, "Just frig off and leave me alone!"
Synonyms
104
9.9
Leave or tell someone to leave in a rude way
12
9.9
Tell someone to go away immediately in a rude way
12
8.4
To tell someone to go away right away in a rude or angry way
12
7.7
Leave a place quickly, often in a rude way
4
8.9
Tell someone to go away and leave you alone
3
9.5
To tell someone rudely to go away or to stop working and relax
3
9.9
Tell someone to go away in a rude way
2
8.7
Reject someone or something rudely and tell them to go away
To tell someone to go away using rude language
Tells someone angrily to go away
A rude way to tell someone to go away without the real swear word
A rude slang phrase that tells someone to go away angrily
A short spoken word telling someone to go away now
To leave quickly and quietly or tell someone rudely to go away
Antonyms
How Rude
- Offensive
104
9.9
- Offensive
12
9.9
- Offensive
1
9.9
709
1.0
- Formal
1
7.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The particle 'off' clearly conveys away/directional meaning, and English has a productive pattern where an expletive or verb plus 'off' yields an imperative meaning 'go away' (e.g. 'piss off', 'buzz off'). However, 'frig' is primarily an interjection and does not itself mean 'send away', so the imperative, rude sense depends on pragmatic patterning rather than straightforward compositional meaning; a B1 learner who knows the parts might guess the general force but not reliably without exposure.
Etymology
Frig off probably comes from a milder form of the stronger rude saying 'fuck off', where frig and off together create the image of telling someone to move away or be pushed away. That's why it means 'to go away' or 'leave me alone'.