franger
English
Etymology
Unknown; perhaps an alteration of french letter.[1]
Noun
franger (plural frangers)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A condom.
- 1999 November 4, Egan Blinkhorn, “Pirate Pay TV”, in aus.tv.pay, Usenet:
- You have a point. But on the other hand, I didn't run off and tell mum with a six pack in one hand and an open franger packet in the other.
- 2000 September 22, rhay10, “Sydney 2000 -Too sexy for some.....”, in rec.travel.australia+nz, Usenet:
- Ranpaging[sic] Roy Slaven & HG Nelson who are comedians of the host broadcaster's Olympic graveyard shift have said that 48,000 of the frangers are for the personal use of the mayor of the Olympic village - 'Richo'. they claim the rest are for the Cuban team who when they have finished their events are going at it like rabbits.
- 2001, Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires, unnumbered page,
- The barber would say while he was cutting a grown-up′s hair, ‘Do you need any home supplies, sir?’ which is the secret code for a packet of frangers.
- 2002 February 7, Janine Burgess, “Armour against pleasure?”, in The Timaru Herald:
- Gone are the terms we used in our youth the frenchies, frangers, rubbers, joes, french letters, gumboots, rubbers, johnnies, parachutes and plastic fantastics -- these days they're just condoms.
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Synonyms
- dinger (Australian slang)
- See also Thesaurus:condom
Derived terms
- foot franger
References
- ""franger", entry in 2007, Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, page 267.
French
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written frange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a “soft” /ʒ/ and not a “hard” /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Conjugation of franger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | frangeant /fʁɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | frangé /fʁɑ̃.ʒe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | franger | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | frangeant /fʁɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | frange /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
franges /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
frange /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
frangeons /fʁɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
frangez /fʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
frangent /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect | frangeais /fʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
frangeais /fʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
frangeait /fʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
frangions /fʁɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
frangiez /fʁɑ̃.ʒje/ |
frangeaient /fʁɑ̃.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | frangeai /fʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
frangeas /fʁɑ̃.ʒa/ |
frangea /fʁɑ̃.ʒa/ |
frangeâmes /fʁɑ̃.ʒam/ |
frangeâtes /fʁɑ̃.ʒat/ |
frangèrent /fʁɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | frangerai /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
frangeras /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
frangera /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
frangerons /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
frangerez /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
frangeront /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | frangerais /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
frangerais /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
frangerait /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
frangerions /fʁɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
frangeriez /fʁɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/ |
frangeraient /fʁɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | frange /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
franges /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
frange /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
frangions /fʁɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
frangiez /fʁɑ̃.ʒje/ |
frangent /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | frangeasse /fʁɑ̃.ʒas/ |
frangeasses /fʁɑ̃.ʒas/ |
frangeât /fʁɑ̃.ʒa/ |
frangeassions /fʁɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
frangeassiez /fʁɑ̃.ʒa.sje/ |
frangeassent /fʁɑ̃.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | frange /fʁɑ̃ʒ/ |
— | frangeons /fʁɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
frangez /fʁɑ̃.ʒe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “franger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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