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Definition of Firked
1. firk [v] - See also: firk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firked
Literary usage of Firked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Drama: Comprehending the Best Plays in the English Language by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1804)
"Little hetter, gentleman : I dare not say she is so, sir, hecause She's yours,
sir : these five years she has firked A pretty living. Per. ..."
2. The School World (1902)
"You can be 'firked up' so many places, 'up to books' (ie in class); or, for a
grave offence, you may be 'firked' altogether. ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... and firked your Priscilla. Hey, down a down, derry. This gear will not hold.
HODGE. How say'st thou, Firk, were we not merry at Old Ford? FIRK. ..."
4. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"... and firked your Priscilla. Hey, down a down, derry. This gear will not hold.
Virk. How, merry ! Why, our buttocks went 1 London : a ..."
5. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"... Captain George Wither wrung in the Withers : wherein the juggling rebell is
finely firked and ..."
6. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1890)
"... Captain George Wither wrung in the Withers: wherein the juggling rebell in
finely firked and ..."
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