frug

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English

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Etymology

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Unknown. Perhaps related to frig.

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Noun

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frug (plural frugs)

  1. (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.
    • 1964 July 15, The Australian, Sydney, page 20, column 3:
      She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf.
    • 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 52:
      The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.
    • 1990, T. Coraghessan Boyle, East is East: A Novel, Viking, →ISBN, page 166:
      They were doing a modified frug, a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school.
    • 1991, Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston, The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 158:
      In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.

Verb

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frug (third-person singular simple present frugs, present participle frugging, simple past and past participle frugged)

  1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.
    • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist[1], number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 12:
      Joan Baez's frugging on several occasions gave the festival the added flair of an Arthur Murray Dance Party.
    • 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 105:
      "Do you like frugging?" "I'm not sure I..." "Oh, come on." Betty danced.
    • 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 53:
      A snake charmer merely hypnotizes the creature with his movements. So I began to move the flute, just as Gopal had done. Now I had the cobra frugging.

German

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frug

  1. (dated or dialectal, colloquial) first/third-person singular preterite of fragen
    • 1795, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “XXXIV b)”, in Venetianische Epigramme[2]:
      Niemals frug ein Kaiser nach mir, es hat sich kein König / Um mich bekümmert, und Er war mir August und Mäzen
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    • 1917, Gustav Freytag, “Die Trennung”, in Das Nest der Zaunkönige, page 117:
      »Wie kommt es, daß Gottfried uns nicht begleitet?« frug Immo auf dem Roß.
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    • 1998, “Willst Du Mit Mir Geh'n?”, performed by Fünf Sterne Deluxe:
      Die drei Punkte auf ihrem Arm kannte er genau / Er wedelte mit dem Schwanz, sie nahm ihn an die Leine und frug / Willst Du mit mir geh'n?
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Lombard

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Etymology

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From Latin frūctus.

Noun

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frug m

  1. (Old Lombard) fruit