Other forms: fridges
A fridge is the large cold cupboard that keeps your food and drink fresh. Humming in the corner, covered in magnets.
It works by moving heat out rather than making cold, which is why the back of it is warm. The full word is refrigerator, and almost nobody says it in Britain. A fridge-freezer has both compartments, and a fridge magnet is one of the world's most common souvenirs. Before refrigeration people relied on salting, smoking and cold cellars, which is why so much traditional food is preserved.
1nounfridgeAn insulated cabinet kept cold to preserve food.
“There is milk in the fridge.”
Patternin / out of the fridge · put sth in the fridge · fridge door / shelf · a fridge magnet · fridge-freezer
Also accepted in games: refrigerator
fRIDGE → a BRIDGE of ice inside
Picture a little bridge of ice inside it, holding up the milk. The fridge keeps the whole thing cold all night.
hooks ontobridge
Fridge is refrigerator with both ends cut off, and the d is borrowed. The spelling follows bridge and ridge, and the Frigidaire brand probably helped it along.
Built from
The noun is a a clipping of refrigerator, perhaps influenced by the Frigidaire brand of refrigerators, or frigerator (“(dated) refrigerator”). The spelling is likely influenced by analogy with bridge, ridge, etc. The verb is derived from the noun. The fandom slang verb sense alludes to the phrase "women in refrigerators" coined by Gail Simone. Simone was referencing a plot point in Green Lantern (volume 3, issue 54, 1994), in which the Green Lantern's girlfriend is murdered by a villain, and her body placed in a refrigerator for him to find.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in In the Kitchen, A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 3 of A Man Called Ove.
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