'frigerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'frigerators
Senses: examples: text: There was food left in that jar of Beech-Nut and I let mother put the cap back on and put it in the ’frigerator.
ref: 1945 November 1, “Beech-Nut Strained & Junior (Chopped) Foods”, in Warren Times-Mirror, volume forty-six, Warren, Pa., page thirteen:
text: She was at the front door when Monnie hurried from the kitchen carrying a short white box. “It came this morning—from him. I put it in the ’frigerator and most forgot it. What do you call them pink flowers?”
ref: 1946 June, Claire Wallis, “Extra Woman: A Cosmopolitan Novelette”, in Arthur Gordon, editor, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, volume 120, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazines Inc., page 198, column 3:
text: “Mommy, you said I had to finish my milk shake. I didn’t.” / “You finished it before dinner.” / “No, I didn’t. I whipped it up, but I still felt kind of full. So I put it in the ’frigerator.”
ref: 1954, Frances Shelley Wees, chapter 29, in M’ Lord, I Am Not Guilty, Garden City, N.Y.: […] [F]or the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 197:
text: "What's the use," she said aloud. "Put the food in the bedroom. Put the pots and pans in the bathroom. Put the underwear in the refrigerator!" Her voice rose along with her frustration. / "Mom, I don't have the underwear." Little Mark looked around at the open boxes. "How come we have to put it in the 'frigerator? Why do we have to do everything different?" Mark started to cry while he talked and peeled tape off boxes. "Can't we have drawers in our bedroom in this house? I don't like new houses. I like old apartments. I can't have my friends, can't ride elevators, can't have drawers for my stuff. And I'm hungry, too. No milk or apples in the 'frigerator in new houses." / Mrs. Alexander had started to laugh when she saw that her five-year-old son had misunderstood her complaint for an order.
ref: 1978 June, Thomas Dieterich, Cecilia Freeman, Peg Griffin, “Building an Individual Test”, in Peg Griffin, editor, Assessing Comprehension in a School Setting (Papers in Applied Linguistics; Linguistics and Reading Series, 3), Arlington, Va.: Center for Applied Linguistics, →ISBN, page 82:
text: ‘What’s in the bag?’ she asked. / ‘A bottle of wine.’ / ‘I’ll put it in the ’frigerator,’ she told him, extending two small hands towards it. / ‘Well, it’s red wine. You don’t put it in the fridge.’
ref: 1997, Alison Kelly, chapter 4, in Yesterday’s Bride (Harlequin Presents, 1903; From Here to Paternity), Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin Books, →ISBN, pages 45–46:
text: After it quits bubbling, I take the wine out and seal it in a jar and put it in the ’frigerator.
ref: 1998 [a. 1994], Joseph E[arl] Dabney, quoting Maude Thacker, “Wines, Beers, and Ciders: Maude Thacker’s Elderberry Magic”, in Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking, Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland House, →ISBN, section “The Foods”, subsection “Mountain Beverages”, page 151:
text: Put the feet, tail, an’ head all together to make sousemeat out of it, all of it. It makes a good sandwich. You put it in the bowl and press it down. Then, when it gets hard, you put it in the ’frigerator or set it out where it’s cold an’ let it get hard.
ref: 1999 December, Belle Henslee, quotee, “Farm Animals”, in Kaye Carver Collins, Lacy Hunter, Foxfire students, editors, Foxfire 11: The Old Homeplace, Wild Plant Uses, Preserving and Cooking Food, Hunting Stories, Fishing, and More Affairs of Plain Living, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., →ISBN, page 235:
text: I fried some chicken too. Here. Don’t put it in the ’frigerator, just leave it on the stove …
ref: 2002 (originally produced 1989), Cheryl L. West, act one, scene 1, in Jar the Floor, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service Inc., →ISBN, page 12:
text: Then we got ice cream, but I didn’t eat all mine, so Nana put it in the ‘frigerator for me to eat after dinner, and Hunter got it all over his clothes, and then Nana had to clean—
ref: 2004 December, LaTonya Y. Williams, “An Offer You Can’t Refuse”, in Mixed Messages, Farmingdale, N.Y.: United Brothers, Urban Books LLC, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Abel handed over the smooth brown egg, and the tears stopped instantly. / “I’m going to go put it in the ’frigerator!” she exclaimed happily, and she and Paul dashed out of the barn toward the house.
ref: 2016, Laurel Blount, chapter 2, in A Family for the Farmer (Harlequin® Heartwarming Larger-Print), New York, N.Y.: Love Inspired Books, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Clipping of refrigerator.
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