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flisky en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From flisk + -y.

Meanings

1. (Northern-England, Scotland) Frisky; inclined to flisk (frisk) or caper.
   • You're like ADAM BLACK's poney, Flisky, and pranky, and no very canny;[…] 1856, George Henderson, The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs of the County of Berwick, page 48:
2. (Northern-England, Scotland) Sprinkly; flisking.
   • First came fitful scuds of rain, "flisky" rain they call it, loose outriders of the storm, spurning the soft ice, as they dashed by, and lashing the woodman's windows. 1881, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest, page 177:
   • 'Flisky rain,' Tom announced with dismal satisfaction. 'Be like this all day, I reckons. Drops so tiny you'd think they'd not do more'n wet your hair. But it'll drench you top to end, y'know?' 2003, Ed Wicke, Mattie and the Highwaymen, page 104:

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