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flisky

flisky adjective: frisky; inclined to flisk (frisk) or caper.

Adjective

flisky (comparative more flisky, superlative most flisky)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) Frisky; inclined to flisk (frisk) or caper.
    • You're like ADAM BLACK's poney, Flisky, and pranky, and no very canny;[…]1856, George Henderson, The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs of the County of Berwick, page 48
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) Sprinkly; flisking.
    • First came fitful scuds of rain, "flisky" rain they call it, loose outriders of the storm, spurning the soft ice, as they dashed by, and lashing the woodman's windows.1881, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest, page 177
    • 'Flisky rain,' Tom announced with dismal satisfaction. 'Be like this all day, I reckons. Drops so tiny you'd think they'd not do more'n wet your hair. But it'll drench you top to end, y'know?'2003, Ed Wicke, Mattie and the Highwaymen, page 104

Forms of flisky

comparativemore flisky
superlativemost flisky

Origin of flisky

From flisk + -y.

Questions about flisky

What does flisky mean?
Flisky means frisky; inclined to flisk (frisk) or caper.
What part of speech is flisky?
Flisky is an adjective.

Words near flisky in the dictionary

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

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