▪ I. flisk, n. dial.
(flɪsk)
[f. next.]
1. A whim, a freak. Sc.
| 1818 Scott 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).
| 1891 Atkinson 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.]
| 1680 Lond. Gaz. No. 1563/4 A Black Mare, about 15 hands with a flisk Tail, lame on the near foot before. 1721 Ibid. 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.
| 1596 Gosson Pleas. Quips 110, Fannes..To flit away the flisking flies. a 1689 W. Cleland Effigies Cleri Poems (1697) 62 Which make some Brethren flisk and fling. 1786 Burns Auld Farmers New-Year Salut. xii, Thou never braindg't an' fetch't, an' fliskit. 1887 Mod. 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.
| 1792 A. Douglas Poems (1806) 71 But, Willie lad, tak' my advice, An' at it binna fliskit. 1862 A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 60 Fashious fools are easiest flisket. |
3. To flick, knock about. Also, to spurt, sprinkle.
| 1847 Halliwell, Flisk, to flick, as with a whip. Linc. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Flisk, to squirt liquids. 1890 Gloucester Gloss. s.v., Don't get flisking that corn about. |