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flisking

flisking is the present participle and gerund of flisk.

Meaning of flisk

Verb

flisk (third-person singular simple present flisks, present participle flisking, simple past and past participle flisked)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To frisk; to skip; to caper; to move quickly or restlessly.
    • flit away the he flisking flies.1579, Stephen Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) To flick or sprinkle (with or as if with water).
    • 'The wind got up east, and sent us a flisking rain.' Marianne Spry.—1888. S. B. G. To flisk is to sprinkle with fine spray; […]1889, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 93

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Questions about flisking

What is flisking the present participle and gerund of?
Flisking is the present participle and gerund of flisk.

Words near flisking in the dictionary

  1. flirtships
  2. flirtsome
  3. flirty
  4. flisk
  5. flisked
  6. flisking
  7. flisks
  8. flisky
  9. Fliss
  10. Flisses
  11. flist

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