Meanings
- humorousnonstandardnot comparablerarefour times
I've been caught out once or twice or thrice or frice.
2001 August 4, "Alan T Gower", “Seconds from Disaster”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet), message-ID <3b6bac29$0$3761$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com>4 more examples
[…] not once or twice or thrice or frice, but many times, and always under awkward conditions.
1999, John R. Erickson, Gerald L. Holmes, Every dog has his day[…] and wince, she says, and twice and thrice and frice and fice and sice and seven-up sits the Star of the County Down […]
2001, Benedict Kiely, The collected stories of Benedict KielyThree cheers for scratch: Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huzzah! Hip hip huz-ZAH! Not only do I get to see it now, but I got to say huzzah thrice! Well, I guess now it's frice.
2001 February 7, "Joe", “Linnell finds the camera!”, in alt.music.tmbg (Usenet), message-ID <95sa2g$debts$1@ID-50051.news.dfncis.de>Our sacred boost is now finally perfected! As powerful as can be... and FRICE can you use it!
2015, “Chumbucket”, in Mad Max, Warner Bros. Interactive EntertainmentSynonyms: fourfold, fourice, four times
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbfour times
Origin
As if to continue the sequence once, twice, thrice with four.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with frice
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frice. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frice
“frice.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frice. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “frice,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/frice.
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