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frisky, a.|ˈfrɪskɪ|
Also 6 frysky, friscay,
[f. frisk n. + -y1.]
Given to frisking; lively; playful.
a1500Ragman Roll 132 in Hazl. E.P.P. I. 75 And your foot ye tappyn, and ye daunce, Thogh hit the fryskyst horse were in a towne. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clx. [clvi.] 279 a, The lorde of Clary..was a frisca, and a lusty knyght. 1743J. Davidson æneid vii. 203 By the Heat in Frisky Bells the Liquors dance. 1780F. Burney Lett. July, She was as gay, flighty, entertaining, and frisky as ever. 1812Byron Waltz vii, His Sancho thought The knight's fandango friskier than it ought. 1861L. L. Noble Icebergs 291 Away they trip it, like so many frisky buffalo calves. 1875J. H. Bennet Winter Medit. iii. xv. 500 The Negroes..of all ages, from frisky merry little children to decrepit old men. 1885Manch. Exam. 2 May 6/2 The dogs, at once sagacious and frisky, have been admirably drawn.
Hence ˈfriskily adv., in a frisky manner; ˈfriskiness, the quality or state of being frisky.
1727Bailey, Friskiness. 1778F. Burney Diary 3 Aug., I left him..to make his own comments upon my friskiness. 1862Lytton Str. Story II. 74 The white bear gambols..friskily after his meal on human flesh. 1865Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 172 An outpouring of intellectual friskiness. 1894Daily News 20 Mar. 3/1 The brims to hats are friskily curved. |