frisk

Meanings

Adjective

• Lively; brisk

Noun

• A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
• The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body

Verb

• To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
• To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing.

Related

Similar words

• pat down

Origin

• From Middle English frisk, from Old French frisque, of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch frisc or Old High German frisc, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. Cognate with Icelandic frískur. More at fresh.
• Alternative etymology derives frisk from an alteration (due to Old French fresche) of Old French fricque, frique, from Gothic *𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃, from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, *frakaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preg-. Cognate with Middle Dutch vrec, German frech, Old English frec. More at freak.