Firked vs Fisked - What's the difference?
firked | fisked |
(firk)
To carry away or about; carry; move.
To drive away.
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
To rouse; raise up.
To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
* Ben Jonson
(fisk)
(obsolete) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
* Latimer
To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.
* {{quote-news, year=2002, date=December, work=Review, author=Institute of Public Affairs, title=The World of Blog
, passage=A proper fisking leaves the reader with a clear understanding that the text so fisked was appallingly wrong in every important respect!}}
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 13, work=The Economist, title=Fisked By Obama, url=
, passage=Now, apparently, Barack Obama's campaign is fisking Hillary Clinton's campaign memos.}}
English eponyms
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As verbs the difference between firked and fisked
is that firked is (firk) while fisked is (fisk).firked
English
Verb
(head)firk
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) firken, .Verb
(en verb)- I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. - Shakespeare : IV, iv
- A wench is a rare bait, with which a man / No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.
Etymology 2
Frobably an alteration of freak.Derived terms
* (l)fisked
English
Verb
(head)fisk
English
(fisking)Etymology 1
Compare Swedish .Verb
(en verb)- He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions.
Etymology 2
Back-formation from fisking.Verb
(en verb)citation