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Flisk

//flɪsk// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A caper; a spring; a whim. Scotland, obsolete
  2. 2
    A comb with large teeth.
Verb
  1. 1
    To frisk; to skip; to caper; to move quickly or restlessly. Northern-England, Scotland

    "flit away the he flisking flies."

  2. 2
    To flick or sprinkle (with or as if with water). Northern-England, Scotland

    "'The wind got up east, and sent us a flisking rain.' Marianne Spry.—1888. S. B. G. To flisk is to sprinkle with fine spray; […]"

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