frisk

From Middle English frisk (“lively, frisky”), from Middle French frisque (“lively, jolly, blithe, fine, spruce, gay”), of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch frisc (“fresh”) or Old High German frisc (“fresh”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *friskaz (“fresh”). Cognate with Icelandic frískur (“frisky, fresh”). More at fresh.

Alternative etymology derives frisk from an alteration (due to Old French fresche (“fresh”)) of Old French fricque, frique (“smart, strong, playful, bright”), from Gothic *𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (*friks, “greedy, hungry”), from Proto-Germanic *frekaz, *frakaz (“greedy, active”), from Proto-Indo-European *preg- (“greedy, fierce”). Cognate with Middle Dutch vrec (“greedy, avaricious”), German frech (“insolent”), Old English frec (“greedy, eager, bold, daring, dangerous”). More at freak.

• IPA^(key): /fɹɪsk/

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frisk

1. (archaic) Lively; brisk.

   Synonyms: frolicsome, frisky

   • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:

     Her hands must hide her mouth if she but smile; Fain would she seem all frisk and frolic still

• frisky

frisk (plural frisks)

1. A little playful skip or leap; a brisk and lively movement.

   Synonyms: gambol, frolic

2. The act of frisking, of searching for something by feeling someone's body.

   Synonyms: frisking, patdown

   The customs officer gave me a frisk after I went through the metal detector.

frisk (third-person singular simple present frisks, present participle frisking, simple past and past participle frisked)

1. (intransitive) To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
2. (transitive) To search (someone) by feeling their body and clothing.

   The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.

3. (transitive) To search (a place).

   Furniture was tipped over and drawers pulled out. Someone had obviously frisked the joint before we arrived.

• The term frisk is slightly less formal than search.

• pat down

• stop-and-frisk

• frisk someone's cly

• firks

Borrowed from Middle Low German vrisch, versch, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, cognate with English fresh, German frisch, Dutch vers. Doublet of fersk.

IPA^(key): /frɛsk/, [ˈfʁæsɡ̊]

frisk (neuter frisk or friskt, plural and definite singular attributive friske, comparative ere, superlative (predicative) friskest, superlative (attributive) friskeste)

1. fresh
2. cheerful, lively
3. fit, sprightly

• frisk som en fisk
• frisk som en havørn

Borrowed from Sicilian friscu.

• IPA^(key): /frɪsk/

frisk (feminine singular friska, plural friski)

1. fresh; cool

   Minbarra l-ħalib, l-aħjar xarba għall-ulied huwa l-ilma frisk.

   Apart from milk, the best drink for children is fresh water.

Borrowed from Middle Low German vrisch, from Old Saxon *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk-.

frisk (neuter singular friskt, definite singular and plural friske, comparative friskere, indefinite superlative friskest, definite superlative friskeste)

1. fresh
2. keen (e.g. a keen wind)
3. well, healthy
4. refreshing
5. cheerful (e.g. colours)

• friske (verb)
• friskhet
• friskne

frisk

1. imperative of friske

• “frisk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• fresk (dialectal)

Borrowed from Middle Low German vrisch, from Old Saxon *frisk, *fersk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk-. Akin to English fresh.

• IPA^(key): /frɪsk/

frisk (neuter singular friskt, definite singular and plural friske, comparative friskare, indefinite superlative friskast, definite superlative friskaste)

1. fresh
2. keen (e.g. a keen wind)
3. well, healthy
4. refreshing
5. cheerful (e.g. colours)

• “frisk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Frisian fersk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz. More at fresh.

frisk

1. fresh

From Old Swedish frisker, from Middle Low German vrisch, from Old Saxon *frisk, from Proto-West Germanic *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk-. Doublet of färsk and fräsch.

• friisk, frijsk, frysk, fresk, frisch (all obsolete)

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frisk (comparative friskare, superlative friskast)

1. healthy; not sick
2. fresh; refreshing

   friska luften

   (the) fresh air

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

frisk

1. Obsolete form of frisisk (“Frisian”).