frisking

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪskɪŋ

Verb

frisking

  1. present participle and gerund of frisk

Noun

frisking (plural friskings)

  1. The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
    Synonyms: frisk, patdown
  2. The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.
    • 1809, Eaton Stannard Barrett, The setting sun:
      They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns.

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • friscing, frusking, fruscing

Etymology

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Noun

frisking m

  1. (animal) sacrificial victim

Declension

Declension of frisking (masculine a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative frisking friskingā, friskinga
accusative frisking friskingā, friskinga
genitive friskinges friskingo
dative friskinge friskingum
instrumental friskingu —

Descendants

  • Middle High German: vrischinc

References

  • Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
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