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▪ I. frisking, vbl. n.|ˈfrɪskɪŋ|
[f. frisk v. + -ing1.]
In senses of the vb.
1553tr. Beza's Admonit. Parl. (1566) G iij b, The Lords Supper..is transformed into..olde stagelike frisking and horrible Idol gadding. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Gambade, Old peoples frisking doth presage their ending. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Nose, If it [the Blood] proceeds from a Vein, it is thicker and redder, and runs without any frisking. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Frisking, the wind freshening. 1890Spectator 3 May 624/1 And the lambs bleat!.. And their friskings, and their races! 1913H. A. Franck Zone Policeman 88 v. 140 We..gave them and their baggage such a ‘frisking’ as befalls a kaffir leaving a South African diamond mine. 1938M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xix. 342 She only admitted one person at a time into the room, and then only after a keen visual ‘frisking’. 1958S. Ellin Eighth Circle ii. xviii. 141 It was a professional frisking, down to the way his wrist watch..and pen were removed and examined. 1968New Scientist 9 May 288/3 These [uses] included alarm devices in the entrances to banks and aircraft and as a police tool for the ‘frisking’ of the public. 1971Times 7 May 2/3 (headline) Judge rejects protest over frisking.
▪ II. frisking, ppl. a.|ˈfrɪskɪŋ|
[f. frisk v. + -ing2.]
That frisks, in senses of the vb. † Of wine: Sparkling.
1566Drant Horace's Sat. i. F ij, Fragrant friskyng wyne. 1610Dr. Dodypoll iii. i. in Bullen O. Pl. III. 122 A fine frisking usher in a dauncing schoole. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 105 The quick Motions of the frisking Tail. 1725Pope Odyss. xiii. 296 The bounding goats and frisking heifers rove. 1827Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 21 A certain snappishness—a frisking abruptness.
Hence ˈfriskingly adv., in a frisking or frisky manner.
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