Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To carry away or about; carry; move.
- To drive away.
- To beat; drub; trounce.
- To rouse; raise up.
- To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly: sometimes used reflexively.
- n. A stroke; a lash.
- n. A freak; a trick.
Wiktionary
- n. A freak; trick; quirk.
- v. transitive To carry away or about; carry; move.
- v. transitive To drive away.
- v. obsolete To have sexual intercourse, to copulate.
- v. transitive To rouse; raise up.
- v. intransitive To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
- n. A stroke; lash.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To beat; to strike; to chastise.
- v. obsolete To fly out; to turn out; to go off.
- n. obsolete A freak; trick; quirk.
Etymologies
- Frobably an alteration of freak. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Eric tickled me awake at, firk, it must have been 7 because he went to work early.”
“Otherwise I would have already frickin 'uninstalled the firk-dang-blasted thing ...”
“Franklin Butchering hoggs - Will brought 2 loads wood home and delivered one to John Miller Coach maker; I wrote and sent it by Caroline to Mr. Shindler he send by her a tin firk for the purpose of Lard recd a letter from A. Shafer stateing the cost in part for repairing my House in S. Town.”
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839,
“Gentlemen, lets in again and firk it away, shall we not?”
“I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.”
“As for Tontonteac and Dasamonquepeuc, I shall imitate the manly frankness of the boy in _Henry V. _, and say, "I do not know what is the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.”
“I'll rattle him up, I warrant you, I'll firk him with a _certiorari_.”
“You firk him, I'll firk him myself; pray, Sir Paul, hold you contented.”
“I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him: discuss the same in French unto him.”
“Comes he not yet? s'foot, if I do find knavery unders cowl, I'll tickle him, I'll firk him.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘firk’.
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marginalia
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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Sassypants
The qualities of The Diva. Social skills, playful yet bitchy.
churlish, bitchy, cantankerous, peevish, disagreeable, quarrelsome, venomous, grumpy, groachy, crabby, dismal, snappish and 143 more...
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Potentially Useful Yet Less Common Mo...
Scrabble usefulness?
mulct, prink, louche, dreck, sloom, brank, stirp, soss, gowl, snell, snite, pule and 3 more...
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fun ones
fun to say or fun in meaning
sizzard, clou, matutolagnia, grok, xiphoid, cwm, cattywampus, scroop, loblolly, katzenjammer, sphygmus, forfex and 68 more...
Tweets
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yarb Remorse for his delinquencies was to be excited only by sympathy; so that whenever it became necessary to make a bloody example, my seat of vengeance was firked most unmercifully.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1 Sep 19, 2008
uselessness No firkin way! Sep 24, 2007
john Fantastic! From Henry V. Sep 24, 2007
azd v. t. 1. To beat; to strike; to chastise.
"I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him."-Shakespeare.
v. i. 1.To fly out; to turn out; to go off.
"A wench is a rare bait, with which a man
No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad." -B.Jonson.
n. 1. A freak; trick; quirk. Sep 24, 2007