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Fisked vs Frisked - What's the difference?

fisked | frisked |

As verbs the difference between fisked and frisked

is that fisked is past tense of fisk while frisked is past tense of frisk.

fisked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fisk)

  • fisk

    English

    (fisking)

    Etymology 1

    Compare Swedish .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.
  • * Latimer
  • He fisks abroad, and stirreth up erroneous opinions.

    Etymology 2

    Back-formation from fisking.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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 citation
  • , 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 ----

    frisked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (frisk)

  • frisk

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
  • (Bishop Hall)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A frolic; a fit of wanton gaiety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap.
  • To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing.
  • The police frisked the suspiciously-acting individual and found a knife as well as a bag of marijuana.

    Derived terms

    * stop-and-frisk

    Usage notes

    * The term frisk'' is slightly less formal than ''search .

    Anagrams

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