frug

[froog]

noun

1. a dance deriving from the twist.

verb (used without object)

frugged, frugging 

1. to dance the frug.

Other Word Forms

• frugger noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of frug¹

First recorded in 1960–65; of unexplained origin; perhaps akin to frig ¹

Example Sentences

A year after Frug was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant, a pair of male law students at Harvard wrote a mocking sendup of the article on feminist legal theory that Frug had been working on before she died and which was published posthumously in the Harvard Law Review.

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Faculty and students denounced the parody, arguing that in its misogyny it constituted “a perpetuation,” in the words of one student, “of the forces that killed Mary Joe Frug.”

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On the anniversary of Frug’s murder, the Harvard Revue, a spoof overseen by editors of the Review, published a parody, “He-Manifesto of Post-Mortem Legal Feminism.”

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In April, 1991, Mary Joe Frug, a professor at New England Law, was murdered by a knife-wielding assailant near her house, in Cambridge.

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“Big Spender,” “Rich Man’s Frug” and “Rhythm of Life” raise the pulse of a faithful revival that can’t help magnifying the inconsistency of the material.

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