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Thread #85837   Message #1592858
Posted By: GUEST,Joe_F
28-Oct-05 - 10:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: Minced oaths
Subject: RE: BS: Minced oaths
In America, "frig" is widely regarded as a minced form of "fuck". In Britain, it means "masturbate". Hence (obSongs), an American who hears the line "Frigging in the rigging" may imagine an acrobatic feat not contemplated in the mother country.

--- Joe Fineman    joe_f@verizon.net

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