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Synonyms for friskiness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fris-kee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfrɪs ki

Définition of friskiness

Origin : c.1500, from frisk "lively" + -y (2). Related: Friskiness.

noun playfulness

Example sentences :

Yet the friskiness was there; no one but herself would have had less of it.
Extract from : « Julia Ward Howe » by Laura E. Richards

But just then, a colt, full of life and friskiness, galloped past her.
Extract from : « The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) » by Guy de Maupassant

There is much strength and friskiness in these fresh-water surges.
Extract from : « Fun And Frolic » by Various

These boys of thirty-two or three are so pesky full of life and friskiness that you have to treat 'em as you would young lions.
Extract from : « The Great Sioux Trail » by Joseph Altsheler

Of course a good deal of this friskiness comes of my being in sight of land—on the Webster & Co. debts, I mean.
Extract from : « The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 4, 1886-1900 » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

She had none of the friskiness commonly belonging to black children; she was anything but a Topsy.
Extract from : « Seven Little People and their Friends » by Horace Elisha Scudder

After a paragraph or so our blood Is up, and even our jaded hackneys scud along, and warm up into friskiness.
Extract from : « The Young Duke » by Benjamin Disraeli

Pleasant to see the labourer on Sunday jump with the friskiness of a cow upon a sunny day.
Extract from : « Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. I (of 2) » by Dorothy Wordsworth

Friskiness was an attribute not confined to the born inheritors of that which called itself society.
Extract from : « Social Transformations of the Victorian Age » by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

Costa Rica, too, almost an isthmian country, enjoys a very bad reputation for this kind of friskiness.
Extract from : « The Panama Canal » by J. Saxon Mills

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