Definition of Flisky

1. skittish [adj FLISKIER, FLISKIEST] - See also: skittish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flisky

flirtiness
flirting
flirtingly
flirtings
flirtini
flirtinis
flirtish
flirts
flirty
flisk
flisked
fliskier
fliskiest
flisking
flisks
flisky (current term)
flist
flitch
flitched
flitches
flitching
flite
flited
flites
fliting
flits
flitt
flitted
flitten

Literary usage of Flisky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, and Affinity to by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett (1846)
"She's a rare flisky jade." FLIT, to remove from one habitation to another. Su.-Got. fli/ttn. Dan. flytte. Swed. ..."

2. A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases by Job Lowsley, Barzillai Lowsley (1888)
"flisky [flisk'i], adj. small, minute; as 'flisky rain,' ie fine rain. —Wise, New Forest. Flitch, [flieh], sb. a plank cut from the middle of a tree. ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"... flisky " rain they call it, loose outriders of the storm, spurning the soft ice, as they dashed by, and lashing the woodman's windows. ..."

4. Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: The Familiar Letters of James Howell by James Howell, Agnes Repplier (1907)
"... keeper of the grave of the Christian God, Lord of the Tree of Life and of the river flisky, prior of the Earthly Paradise, conqueror of the Macedonians, ..."

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