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English
Pronunciation
Verb
frisking
- present participle and gerund of frisk
Noun
frisking (plural friskings)
- The act or an instance of checking someone's clothes and body for weapons or contraband.
- Synonyms: frisk, patdown
- 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
Etymology
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Noun
frisking m
- (animal) sacrificial victim
Declension
Declension of frisking (masculine a-stem)
Descendants
References
- Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014