freck

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Well all in all he seems to be a freck of a bowler that could do about anything with the ball.

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  1. Eager; lively; quick; ready. With lordes and with knightes kene And other doghty men bydene [besides] That war ful frek to fight. Minot, Poems, p. 15. ffrek as fuyre in the flint He in armes had hyre hynt. Sir Degrevant, l. 1365. Loue is better than the cole To hem that of it is fayn & frike. Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 23.
  2. Bold; audacious. Ac Sathanas the frecche the saule wule drecche [But Satan the audacious will vex the soul). Old Eng. Miscellany, p. 75. Faughte with the frekkeste that to Fraunce longez. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), l. 2164. The Egle is frikest fowle in flye, Ouer all fowles to wawe hys wenge. Holy Rood (ed. Morris), p. 221.
  3. Active; vigorous; stout. My floures ben fallen, and my frike age. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), l. 2204. Fortune's cudgell, let me tell, Is no a willie-waun, Sir: The freckest whiles hae own't her dought. Picken, Poems (1783), p. 159.
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  1. Now only Scots, also written frack; from Middle English frek, freke, frik, frike, frecche, bold, vigorous, lively, quick, from Anglo-Saxon frec, fræc, greedy, eager, audacious, bold, = OD, vreck, greedy, avaricious, miserly, D, vrek, n., a miser, =Middle Low German vrak = Old High German frch, frech, greedy, avaricious, MHG, vrech, German frech, audacious, bold, insolent, = Icelandic frekr, greedy, voracious, = Swedish fräck = Danish fræk, audacious, impudent, = Goth, friks, greedy, only in comp. faihu-friks, greedy for money, avaricious (faihu = Anglo-Saxon feoh, English fee, money). Cf. freak, a man, and freak, a caprice.
  2. A later form of freckle, taken as the simple form; also freak, q. v.
 

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