frisk

English

Etymology

From Middle English frisk, from Old French frisque (“lively, jolly, blithe, fine, spruce, gay”), of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch frisc (“fresh”) or Old High German frisc (“fresh”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”). Cognate with Icelandic frískur (“frisky, fresh”). More at fresh.

Alternative etymology derives frisk from an alteration (due to Old French fresche (“fresh”)) of Old French fricque, frique (“smart, strong, playful, bright”), from Gothic  (friks, “greedy, hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, *frakaz (“greedy, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“greedy, fierce”). Cognate with Middle Dutch vrec (“greedy, avaricious”), German frech (“insolent”), Old English frec (“greedy, eager, bold, daring, dangerous”). More at freak.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fɹɪsk/
• Rhymes: -ɪsk

Adjective

frisk

1. Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.

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Translations

lively; brisk; frolicsome

• Danish: kåd (da), livlig (da), sprælsk (da)
• Dutch: levendig, levendige

• Icelandic: frískur (is) m

Noun

frisk (plural frisks)

1. A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.

Verb

frisk (third-person singular simple present frisks, present participle frisking, simple past and past participle frisked)

1. to frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap
2. to search somebody by feeling their clothes

   The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.

Usage notes

The word frisk is slightly informal compared to search.

Translations

to frolic

search somebody by feeling their clothes

• Danish: kropsvisitere (da)
• Dutch: fouilleren (nl)
• French: fouiller (fr)

• German: filzen (de)
• Icelandic: leita á (is)
• Polish: rewidować

Anagrams

• firks

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Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German vrisch.

Adjective

frisk (neuter frisk or friskt, definite and plural friske)

1. fresh
2. cheerful, lively
3. fit, sprightly

Related terms

• frisk som en fisk
• frisk som en havørn

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

frisk

1. healthy
2. fresh; refreshing

   friska luften

   (the) fresh air

Declension

Declension of frisk

Inflections of frisk		Absolute	Comparative	Superlative
				Attributive	Predicative
Indefinite singular	Common	frisk	friskare		friskast
	Neuter	friskt
Definite singular	Masc.	friske		friskaste
	All	friska		friskaste
Plural		friska		friskaste