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▪ I. flisk, n. dial.|flɪsk|
[f. next.]
1. A whim, a freak. Sc.
1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxviii, There is something in Miss Ashton's change..too sudden and too serious for a mere flisk of her own.
2. A fillip with the finger. in a flisk: ‘in a jiffy’ (Whitby Gloss. 1855).
1891Atkinson Last of Giant-Killers 86 So down his throat she goes in a flisk.
3. In various concrete senses:
a. A ‘whisk’ made of twigs or horsehair for brushing away dust, flies, etc. (Halliwell 1847, Berks. Gloss. 1888).
b. A large-toothed comb (Halliwell 1847, W. Cornw. Gloss. (1880).
c. A syringe (Whitby Gloss. 1876).
▪ II. flisk, a. ? Obs.
[f. next. Cf. flig a.]
1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1563/4 A Black Mare, about 15 hands with a flisk Tail, lame on the near foot before. 1721Ibid. No. 6000/3 Stolen..a black Mare..with a Flisk Tail.
▪ III. flisk, v. Now dial.|flɪsk|
[onomatopœia expressive of a sudden movement through the air; cf. whisk.]
1. intr. To move or dance about in a frolicsome way; to frisk. Of a horse: To be restive.
1596Gosson Pleas. Quips 110, Fannes..To flit away the flisking flies. a1689W. Cleland Effigies Cleri Poems (1697) 62 Which make some Brethren flisk and fling. 1786Burns Auld Farmers New-Year Salut. xii, Thou never braindg't an' fetch't, an' fliskit. 1887Mod. Scott. Poets Ser. x. 58 The hungry honey bees That flisked and feasted there.
2. trans. To make restless and uneasy; to put out, displease.
1792A. Douglas Poems (1806) 71 But, Willie lad, tak' my advice, An' at it binna fliskit. 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 60 Fashious fools are easiest flisket.
3. To flick, knock about. Also, to spurt, sprinkle.
1847Halliwell, Flisk, to flick, as with a whip. Linc. 1876Whitby Gloss., Flisk, to squirt liquids. 1890Gloucester Gloss. s.v., Don't get flisking that corn about. |