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Fisk

//fɪsk// name, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Richland Township, Adair County, Iowa.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A minor city in Butler County, Missouri.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the town of Utica, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
Verb
  1. 1
    To run about; to fist; to whisk. obsolete

    "[W]hen the light of Goddes word is once reueled, then he is buſy, then he rores then he fyſkes abrode, and ſtyrreth vp erronious opiniõs."

  2. 2
    To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.

    "A proper fisking leaves the reader with a clear understanding that the text so fisked was appallingly wrong in every important respect!"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English fisken, fisshen. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English *fȳscian, an iterative form of fȳsan (“to hasten”), thus equivalent to feeze + -k, and faze + -k. Compare also Swedish fjäska (“to bustle about”).

Etymology 2

Back-formation from fisking.

Etymology 3

Occupational surname for a fisherman, from Old English fisc or Old Norse fiskr, all from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz.

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