frisking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/
Verb
frisking
- present participle of frisk
Noun
frisking (plural friskings)
- 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.
- 1809, Eaton Stannard Barrett, The setting sun