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frisk(dictionary)

jakkalsbessie (iou) and frisk (iou)


jakkalsbessie (iou)



jakkalsbessie noun. S. Afr. M19.
[Afrikaans, from jakkals jackal + bessie berry.]
(The fruit of) either of two tropical African trees, an ebony, Diospyros mespiliformis, and Sideroxylon inerme (family Sapotaceae).

frisk (iou)



frisk adjective, verb, & noun. LME.
[Old French frisque vigorous, alert, lively, merry, var. of fri(s)che, earlier frique, perh. ult. rel. to Old High German frisc fresh, lively.]
A. adjective. Full of life; spirited, lively, frisky. LME-M19.
b. verb.
verb intrans. Skip, leap, Dance, in a lively playful manner; gambol, frolic. E16.
V. Woolf She came frisking into the room; but her mind is a sedate, literal mind. F. Tuohy Ponies..were frisking in the sunshine.
verb trans. Move or wave in a lively playful manner. M17.
R. H. Patterson The tail is frisked up into the air in the liveliest manner possible.
verb trans. Search (a person or place); esp. feel quickly over (a person) in search of a concealed weapon etc. Orig. slang. L18.
F. Forsyth The guards checked him at the gate, frisking him from ankles to armpits.
C. noun.
Orig. in Horsemanship, a caracole, a caper. Now gen., a playful leap or skip, (rare) a whim. Also, friskiness. E16.
An act of frisking, a search (see sense B.3 above). Orig. slang. L18.
frisker noun a person who or thing which frisks M16.