Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A sudden spring or turn; a caper; a whim.
  • noun A bundle of white rods to brush away cobwebs and dust; a whisk.
  • noun A comb with large teeth.
  • To fly about nimbly; skip; caper.
  • To fret at the yoke or the collar.
  • To flick, as with a whip.
  • To render restless; fret.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Scot. A caper; a spring; a whim.
  • intransitive verb Obs. Scot. To frisk; to skip; to caper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Scotland A caper; a spring; a whim.

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Examples

  • Ashton’s change a devilish deal too sudden and too serious for a mere flisk of her own.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • "I'll tell you what it is," returned his patron, "I never knew much of that sort of fine ladies, and I believe they may be as capricious as the devil; but there is something in Miss Ashton's change a devilish deal too sudden and too serious for a mere flisk of her own.

    The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott 1801

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