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Frisk

verb

(past & past part. frisked; pres. part. frisking)

Play boisterously. Synonyms: cavort, disport, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport. "The gamboling lambs in the meadows" , "The toddlers romped in the playroom"

Search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets.

noun

The act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs. Synonym: frisking.

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"Frisk" Quotes from Famous Books

... very joyful!" said the old seneschal to her when on the home journey she made her mare prance, jump, and frisk. ...

— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... passenger in the same vessel with myself, brought with him a convict as a domestic. I asked him what were his future plans? He replied, that he meant to go and see his mother, if she was alive; but if she was dead, he, to use his own words, would 'frisk a crib,' (Anglice—rob a shop) or do something to lag him for seven years again, as he was perfectly aware that he could not work hard enough to get his living in England."—Widowson's present state of V. D. Land, 1829. ...

— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West

... fisking and giggiting. Both these words have practically the same signification, i.e., to frisk or scamper about heedlessly, cf. Rules of Civility (1675), in Antiquary (1880):—'Madam ... fisking and prattling are but ill ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn

... If the big thistle is rooted out, where shall the lark sparrow build her nest? If the dirt road is paved, how shall the yellow-hammers have their sand-baths in the evening, while the half grown rabbits frisk around them? Sweet the hours spent in living along the old road—let my life be simpler, that I may spend more time in living and less in getting a living. There are so many things deemed essential that really are not necessary at all. One hour ...

— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell

... Street to the North River ferries afoot. Trolleys took money, and of course one saves up for future great traveling. Over him the April clouds were fetterless vagabonds whose gaiety made him shrug with excitement and take a curb with a frisk as gambolsome as a Central Park lamb. There was no hint of sales-lists in the clouds, at least. And with them Mr. Wrenn's soul swept along, while his half-soled Cum-Fee-Best $3.80 shoes were ambling past warehouses. ...

— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis

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