fridging
- 1Present participle and gerund of fridge.
Critics accused the show of fridging its only female lead just to advance the male protagonist's arc.
By fridging her in the second episode, the writers threw away their most interesting character.
Note
The -ing form serves every verb spelled fridge, and they have little in common. In talk about stories it belongs to the slang verb for killing or sidelining a character, usually a woman, to spur a man's revenge. As a gerund it often stands alone as the name of the trope itself. In the kitchen it simply means chilling something, and an archaic British dialect verb meaning 'to chafe or rub' shares the spelling too.
fridging is a form of fridge
fridge, verb: To place something inside a refrigerator so that it chills. Full entry
- Spelling
- fridge → fridging: drop the e, add -ing
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