firk

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Comes he not yet? s'foot, if I do find knavery unders cowl, I'll tickle him, I'll firk him.

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  1. To carry away or about; carry; move. So bolnet was his body, that burthen hade ynoghe The fete of that freke to ferke hym aboute, Or stond vppo streght for his strong charge. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 3839.
  2. To drive away. Thei werned hym soone, That by force of hur fight thei firked hym thennes. Alisaunder of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), l. 67.
  3. To beat; drub; trounce. Thei … felled the falsse folke, ferked hem hard, With skathe were thei skoumfyt, skape thei ne myght. Alisaunder of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), l. 85. I will firk your father, whether you see or no. Chapman, All Fools, iii. 1. I shall have The worst on 't, for I can firk nobody. Middleton, Game at Chess, iii. 1. I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 4.
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  1. Also written, more properly, ferk, from Middle English ferken, rarely firken, carry, take, or drive off, reflexive take oneself off, intransitive go away, hasten, from Anglo-Saxon fercian (once), bring or take away, prob. not connected with fercian, ge-fercian (each once), sustain, support (with food). Cf. German dial. (Swabian, Swiss) fergen, ferggen, fergken, ferken, bring, despatch.
  2. from firk, v.
  3. Prob. a transposition of freak, q. v.
 

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