| 单词 | frisk of nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrisk of nature 2. transferred and figurative. A brisk sportive movement; a frolic; also, a freak, whim. †frisk of nature = freak of nature at freak n.1 4b. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > chance or fortuitous circumstance hazard1340 accidencea1393 a venture's strokec1450 chance1487 contingent1548 circumstance1599 lotterya1616 accidency1645 by-accident1648 frisk1665 accidentala1834 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim fantasya1450 wantonness1531 humour1533 worm?a1534 will1542 toy?1545 whey-worm1548 wild worm1548 freak1563 crotchet1573 fancy1579 whim-wham1580 whirligig1589 caper1592 megrim1593 spleen1594 kicksey-winsey1599 fegary1600 humorousness1604 curiosity1605 conundrum1607 whimsy1607 windmill1612 buzza1616 capriccioa1616 quirka1616 flama1625 maggota1625 fantasticality1631 capruch1634 gimcrack1639 whimseycado1654 caprich1656 excursion1662 frisk1665 caprice1673 fita1680 grub1681 fantasque1697 whim1697 frolic1711 flight1717 whigmaleery1730 vagary1753 maddock1787 kink1803 fizgig1824 fad1834 whimmery1837 fantod1839 brain crack1853 whimsy-whamsy1871 tic1896 tick1900 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > condition of being abnormal or unnatural > that which is monsterc1384 prodigy1595 aberration1615 unnatural1627 preternatural1674 nonsuch?1706 frisk of nature1809 freak of nature1847 preternaturalism1858 hodmandod1881 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 186 If they do by a frisk get below that superficies, they presently ascend again. a1677 I. Barrow Of Contentm. (1685) 187 New objects..excite the spirits into a pleasant frisk of motion. 1752 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1848) 80/1 I'll have a frisk with you. 1801 J. Foster Let. 18 Mar. in Life & Corr. J. Foster (1846) I. 133 The frisks of a company of summer flies. 1809 Ann. Reg. 754* There is scarcely a nobleman..who is not possessed of one or more of these frisks of nature. 1819 W. Scott Let. 17 Apr. (1933) V. 359 I wish you would all take a frisk down here this summer. 1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 22 Dec. (1939) 53 Can't said [sic] what made me take a frisk so uncommon of late years, as to write verses of freewill. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xx. 197 When you and I had the frisk down in Lincolnshire. 1889 H. F. Wood Englishman Rue Caïn iv The married frumps come over for a frisk. < as lemmas |
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