freca

See also: frecă

Old English

From Proto-Germanic *frekô (“an active or eager man, warrior, wolf”), from *frekaz (“active, bold, desirous, greedy”)

freca m

Weak:

a freca (third-person singular present freacă, past participle frecat) 1st conjugation

(transitive) to rub
a își freca mâinile ― to rub one’s hands

se freca la ochi ― to rub one’s eyes
(reflexive) to rub against
Hainele îmi sunt pătate cu var fiindcă m-am frecat de zid.
My clothes are stained with whitewash because I rubbed against the wall.
(transitive, of egg whites) to beat
(transitive, colloquial, figurative) to give a beating
(transitive, colloquial) Short for freca la cap (“to bother”).
(transitive, impersonal, colloquial, derogatory) Short for îl freca grija (“to be unduly concerned in somebody’s business”).
- 2006, Corneliu Porumboiu, 52:16 from the start, in Corneliu Porumboiu, director, A fost sau n-a fost? [12:08 East of Bucharest], spoken by Vasile Rebegea (Ion Apostoliu), Independența Film:
  ―Da’ ce tot te freacă pe tine, măi, ce-am făcut eu cu bradul meu?
  “Tell me already, what do you care so much what I did with my Christmas tree?”
(transitive, slang, dated, education) to examine rigourously
- 1987 April, Oarga Petrișor Horia, letter to the editor, in Cinema‎, year 25, number 291, page 11:
  Din amfiteatru — suspens! — a ieșit un coleg! Deschid la maximum urechile. „Cît?“ „6!“ „Cum îi proful?“ „Te freacă?“
  Out of the lecture hall—what suspense!—came out a fellow student! I open my ears to the max. “What grade?” “A six!” “How’s the professor?” “Is he severe?”

conjugation of freca (first conjugation, no infix)