franger

English

Etymology

Unknown; perhaps an alteration of french letter.

Noun

franger (plural frangers)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A condom.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:condom

   • 1999 November 4, Egan Blinkhorn, “Pirate Pay TV”, in aus.tv.pay‎^[1] (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^[2] (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.

Derived terms

• foot franger

Anagrams

• granfer

French

Etymology

From frange +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

franger

1. to fringe

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)

infinitive	simple	franger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	frangeant /fʁɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		frangé /fʁɑ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “franger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.