flisk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɪsk/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪsk

Noun

flisk (plural flisks)

1. (Scotland) A caper; a spring; a whim.
2. A comb with large teeth.

Verb

flisk (third-person singular simple present flisks, present participle flisking, simple past and past participle flisked)

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To frisk; to skip; to caper.
   • 1579, Stephen Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse:

     flit away the he flisking flies.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “flisk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• filks