frisking

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfɹɪskɪŋ/

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 friskinga
accusative frisking friskinga
genitive friskinges friskingo
dative friskinge friskingum
instrumental friskingu —

Descendants
  • Middle High German: vrischinc

References
  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
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