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frisky

/ˈfɹɪski/

frisky adjective: abounding in energy or playfulness.

Adjective

frisky (comparative friskier, superlative friskiest)

  1. Abounding in energy or playfulness.
    • He had his hands full, with three frisky kittens in the house.
  2. (informal) Sexually aroused.
    • It was the shots. It had to be. LeClair had declined to explain what was in them, but they'd all been feeling energized, sharper, friskier since the injections. Something to do with McInnis' promise of advanced Foundation healthcare, he supposed. Maybe even O5 shit. Well, no harm done so far.2023 October 22, HarryBlank, “Waiting to Happen”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024
    Synonyms:
    horny

frisky meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Tagalog

frisky in Urdu

چل بلا, کھلاڑی, کھلنڈرا, شوخ

frisky in Malayalam

bouncy, lively, bubbly
ആടുന്ന, ഉല്ലാസമുള്ള, പ്രഹൃഷ്ട, സാനന്ദമായ, സചേതനമായ, ഊർജ്ജസ്വലതയുള്ള

frisky in Tagalog

playful; energetic; lively; enthusiastic
malikot

Examples of frisky in a sentence

  • Some of our gentlemen officers, happening to stop at a tavern, or rather a sort of grogshop, took such a seasoning that two or three of them became “quite frisky.”
  • A family of frisky squirrels was having a field day amongst the towering obstacle course of foliage.
  • In the water, Lenox got a little frisky and Farah ended up losing her bikini top.

All 10 example sentences with frisky

Synonyms of frisky

All synonyms of frisky

Forms of frisky

comparativefriskier
superlativefriskiest

Origin of frisky

From frisk + -y.

Words formed from frisky

Words that rhyme with frisky

Questions about frisky

What does frisky mean?
Frisky means abounding in energy or playfulness.
What is frisky in Urdu?
Frisky in Urdu is چل بلا, کھلاڑی, کھلنڈرا. See Frisky meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is frisky?
Frisky is an adjective.
How do you pronounce frisky?
Frisky is pronounced /ˈfɹɪski/.

Words near frisky in the dictionary

  1. frisking someone's cly
  2. friskingly
  3. friskings
  4. frisks
  5. frisks someone's cly
  6. frisky
  7. Frisland
  8. frislet
  9. frislets
  10. Friso-Saxon
  11. Frison

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: frisky (page history and authors); frisky (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); frisky (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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