Why is the refrigerator often termed as fridge?

Question

Where did the word fridge originate from?

Thanks for answering a stupid question kyle.

Answer 1

O.K this is a better question than people are giving you credit for. It's not short for refrigerator (there's no "d" in that) its short for Frigidaire, the first really popular brand of refrigerator. Kinda like how some people call copy machines "Xerox" machines.

Answer 2

Even before Thomas Edison turned on his first light bulb, humans knew that cold kept food safe. The Romans upgraded refrigeration to include packing ice around food sent from their far-flung territories, but it was the Chinese who were the first to make a “machine” to create cold out of a combination of salt and snow poured over a bucket of food. The French perfected this machine in the mid-19th century. Only two decades later, the two enterprising Frenchmen were shipping frozen meat across the Atlantic in a ship named Frigorifique, the origin of the word refrigerator.

Fridge is just an abbreviation of Refrigerator.

Answer 3

In the middle of refrigerator is the word fridge and where did they get TV form instead of using televison? Its just easier to say its how the world is today- lazy!

Answer 4

the word fridge is derived from the word freeze.
it means a place or any box or some thing where we can store the foods for long time and they get freezed and so they call it as fridge.
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Answer 5

Fridge originated from ice (freezing water)

Answer 6

It is called that because the manufacturer of the first refrigerator (instead of ice box) was Frigidaire. Hence the name "Fridge".

Answer 7

It is a short form of Fridge if you can tell this i will consider you as intelligent What is Table tennis called in Hindi?

Answer 8

now no longer than 3 days, as long as you placed it in the refrigerator once you cooked it. in case you reheat the whole ingredient, throw the the rest element away - micro organism likes to be reheated. be sure the beef would not substitute in texture, scent, or shade till now you devour it, and once you come back to a determination to devour it, be sure the interior temperature is cooked to a minimum of a hundred and eighty levels f.

Answer 9

Folk just shortened the description of what we call a refrigerator. They aptly called it a "fridge." This is a satisfactory description for me.

Answer 10

hello,
Refrigerator means to freez goods .It is a device to froge food material so save from being turns bad.

So fridge is a latin word used for representing refrigerator.

May you find this completely sufficient.
T.c