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▪ I. fisk
see fisc.
▪ II. † fisk, v. Obs.
Also 4–6 fysk(e, 6–8 fiske.
[Possibly a frequentative (formed with k suffix as in walk, talk, lurk) of OE. fýsan to hurry, or of fésian, fýsian feeze v. Cf. the synonymous Sw. fjäska, a frequentative of fjäsa to bustle, make a fuss.]
intr. To move briskly, scamper about, frisk, whisk; also with about, abroad, in and out, to and fro.
Quot. 1906 is a deliberate archaism.
c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1704 & he fyskez hem by-fore, þay founden hym sone. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 153 What frek of þys folde fiskeþ þus a-boute? c1440Promp. Parv. 162/2 Fiskin a-bowte yn ydilnesse, vagor. 1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 104 Than he is busi..then he fyskes a brode. 1575J. Still Gamm. Gurton i. ii. in Dodsl. O. Pl. II. 10 Tome Tannkard's Cow..fysking with her taile. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 114 Why feare yee so, thus fisking in and out? a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Gadding-Gossips, way-going Women, Fidging and Fisking everywhere. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1906Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill 120 Take me from Pevensey to fisk and flyte through fern and forest.
quasi-trans.1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lvii. 242 If he scaped this, at all times to be ware, With faint fond flies, to fiske agayne a warfare.
Hence ˈfisking vbl. n. and ppl. a. Also ˈfisker, one who frisks or scampers about.
c1440Promp. Parv. 162/2 Fyscare a-bowte ydylly, discursor, discursatrix, vagulus vel vagator. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §45 If a shepe haue mathes, ye shall perceyue it by her bytynge, or fyskynge. 1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 175 Not such an other mutterer..or a fisking will. 1601Deacon & Walker Answ. to Darel 190 Being growne very wearie with your violent fiskings. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Trotiere, A fisking huswife, a raunging damsell. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 91 Thoughts..Come buzzing so within my..breast, With fisking traine. 1675Rules of Civility v in Antiquary (1880) II. 58/2 Madam..fisking and pratling are but ill ways to please. |