filks
filks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of filk.
Meaning of filk
Verb
filk (third-person singular simple present filks, present participle filking, simple past and past participle filked)
- To perform filk music.
- I could have filked all night1978, Sarah Elizabeth Miller, I Could Have Filked All Night, page 33
- To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
- To write a parody of (a song).
- 1997 (?: "July A.S. XXXI") Medieval Melodies for Filking
However, the practice of filking, of taking an existing melody and providing new, usually topical and/or satirical, lyrics, is in fact the direct counterpart of the Medieval practice of writing contrafacta.
- 1997 (?: "July A.S. XXXI") Medieval Melodies for Filking
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- Filks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of filk.
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