flisk

• IPA^(key): /flɪsk/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsk

flisk (plural flisks)

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

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.

• “flisk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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