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Webster 1913 Edition


Friskiness

Frisk′i-ness

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Noun.
State or quality of being frisky.

Webster 1828 Edition


Friskiness

FRISK'INESS

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Noun.
Briskness and frequency of motion; gaiety; liveliness; a dancing or leaping in frolic.

Definition 2024


friskiness

friskiness

English

Noun

friskiness (usually uncountable, plural friskinesses)

  1. The characteristic or quality of being frisky.
    • 1944, Sarah Campion, The Pommy Cow (page 159)
      So he let all his chances go by, and the nurses, piqued, let the raw, shy, diffident Australian go by, sensing in him a depth of despair so profound that it made their little games and friskinesses ring as hollow and brittle as the glass balls they hung on the Christmas tree.

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