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Grammar : Verb
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Phonetic Transcription : frɪsk

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Définition of frisk

Origin :
  • 1510s, "to dance, frolic," from Middle English frisk "lively" (mid-15c.), from Middle French frisque "lively, brisk," from Old French frisque "fresh, new; merry, animated" (13c.), possibly from a Germanic source (cf. Middle Dutch vrisch "fresh," Old High German frisc "lively;" see fresh (adj.1)). Sense of "pat down in a search" first recorded 1781. Related: Frisked; frisking. As a noun from 1520s.
  • verb cavort
  • verb search
Example sentences :
  • After all, it was Frisk who did it, and I did not even see Frisk do it.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the White-Rock Cove » by Anonymous
  • Then you had Frisk with you, and I suppose as playful as usual?
  • Extract from : « The Story of the White-Rock Cove » by Anonymous
  • He wanted to take with him his drum and his rocking-chair, and Frisk his dog.
  • Extract from : « The Nursery, December 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 6 » by Various
  • It's long past Frisk's dinner-time, and he has not brought her food!
  • Extract from : « Fruits of Culture » by Leo Tolstoy
  • When I frisk a pair of cut-throats with them, it's different.
  • Extract from : « Laramie Holds the Range » by Frank H. Spearman
  • All muffled up in brindled shawls, do caper, frisk, and spring?'
  • Extract from : « Songs of Childhood » by Walter de la Mare
  • Every now and then the creature begins to frisk about and pull away from him.
  • Extract from : « Hendricks the Hunter » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • Mr. Heath, bring on your Chinese and let them gambol and frisk.
  • Extract from : « The Readjustment » by Will Irwin
  • They'd frisk me of my roll an' we'd never see it ag'in, less we made a runnin' fight of it.
  • Extract from : « Rimrock Trail » by J. Allan Dunn
  • Whenever the fawn caught up, he was quite content to frisk about.
  • Extract from : « In the Wilderness » by Charles Dudley Warner

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