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Webster 1828 Edition

Frisking

FRISK'ING

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ppr.

Leaping; skipping; dancing about; moving with life and gaiety.

Definition 2024

frisking

frisking

English

Verb

frisking

present participle of frisk

Noun

frisking ‎(plural friskings)

The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.
- 1809, Eaton Stannard Barrett, The setting sun
  They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns.