1889. Cassell’s Saturday Journal, 5 Jan. The men frequently club together in a friendly lead to help a brother in distress.
1892. Ally Sloper, 2 Apr., p. 106, col. 3. My father takes the chair at friendly leads.
Friends in Need, subs. phr. (common).—Lice. For synonyms, see Chates.
Frig, verb trans. and refl. (venery).—To masturbate. Also subs. = an act of masturbation. Known sometimes as keeping down the census. [Latin, fricare = to rub.]
English Synonyms.—To bob; to box the Jesuit [‘St. Omer’s lewdness,’ Marston, [[74]]‘Scourge’ (1598)]; to chuff; to chuffer; to claw (Florio); to digitate (of women); to eat (or get) cock-roaches; to bring up (or off) by hand; to fight one’s turkey (Texan); to finger or finger-fuck (of women); to friggle (Florio); to fuck one’s fist (of men); to fetch mettle (Grose); to handle; to indorse; to jerk, play, pump, toss, or work off; to lark; to milk; to mount a corporal and four; to mess, or pull about; to play with (schoolboys’), to rub up; to shag; to tickle one’s crack (of women); to dash one’s doodle; to touch up; to play paw-paw tricks (Grose); to wriggle (old). For foreign synonyms, see Wriggle.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Fricciare … to frig, to wriggle, to tickle.
1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie. Branler la pique, To Frig.
1728. Bailey, Dict., s.v. Frig, to rub.
c. 1716–1746. Robertson of Struan. Poems, 83. So to a House of office … a School-Boy does repair, To … fr—— his P—— there.
1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.