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Definition: Frisk |
FriskNoun1. The act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs. Verb1. Play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the palyroom". 2. Search as for concealed weapons by running the hands rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets; "The police frisked everyone at the airport". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frisk" was first used: 1519. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | FRISK. To dance the Paddington frisk; to be hanged. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FriskSynonyms: frisking (n), cavort (v), disport (v), frolic (v), gambol (v), lark (v), lark about (v), rollick (v), romp (v), run around (v), skylark (v), sport (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Amuse oneself, game; play a game, play pranks, play tricks; sport, disport, toy, wanton, revel, junket, feast, carouse, banquet, make merry, drown care; drive dull care away; frolic, gambol, frisk, romp; caper; dance; (leap); keep up the ball; run a rig, sow one's wild oats, have one's fling, take one's pleasure; paint the town red; see life; desipere in loco, play the fool. |
Cheerfulness | Rejoice; carol, chirrup, lilt; frisk, rollick, give a loose to mirth. |
Journey | Take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole; gallop; (move quickly). |
Leap | Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Frisk |
| English words defined with "frisk": Fisk, Flisk, Frisked. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "frisk": TO FRISK. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Frisk" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (fresh, recent), Norwegian (fresh, good, healthy, recent, well), Swedish (crisp, fresh, good, hale, healthy, lively, lusty, smacking, snappy, sound, strong, sweet, well, whole). |
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Screenplays | Aren't you gonna frisk me? (Dick Tracy; writing credit: Jim Cash) You gonna frisk me? (Road to Perdition; writing credit: Max Allan Collins; Richard Piers Rayner) If I was a wop, you wouldn't frisk me. (Lepke; writing credit: Tamar Simon Hoffs; Wesley Lau) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Frisk. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Frisk" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 46.67% of the time. "Frisk" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 46.67% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 26.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "frisk" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Frisk | Last name | 1,000 | 17,770 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
frisk | 56 |
frisk software | 4 |
frisk stop | 4 |
anders frisk | 3 |
frisk underwear | 3 |
bill frisk | 3 |
frisk innerwear | 2 |
bill frisk senator | 2 |
frisk senator | 2 |
frisk luft | 2 |
frisk robert | 2 |
frisk international | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "frisk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Vjedh (cop, hook, lift, mooch, nobble, peculate, pilfer, pinch, prig, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, snitch, steal, take away, thieve, walk off with), Kontrolloj Në Trup, Hidhem (bounce, bound, caper, dash, hop, jig, jounce, jump, launch, leap, lunge, peg, pounce, skip, spring, vault, Wade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فتش (examine, inspect, investigate, ransack, rummage, search, search for), مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), قصف صاخب, تفتيش (inspection, rummage, search, snooping, visitation), تراقص, رقص (choreography, dance, dancing, dandle, foot, hop, limbo, perform, trip), بحث عن سلاح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Подскачане (Bob, Dido), Подскачам 'есело, азвявам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 搜身 (Frisked, frisking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Skotaèit (cavort, frolic, gambol, romp), Dovádìt (carry on, cavort, gambol, play, romp, tittup, wanton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hypellä (hop, jump, skip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Fouiller, Folâtrer (frolic), Vivacité (friskiness), Gambader (frolic, frolic about), Batifoler (frolic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Hüpfen (bounce, gambol, hop, hopping, leap, prance, skim, skip, to frisk, to skip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χοροπηδώ (caper, cavort, dance, gambol, hop, jig, leap, romp, skip), Σκιρτώ, Σκίρτημα, Σωματική έρευνα, Σουφρώνω, "λέντι, ίάνω Σωματική έρευνα, ίάμνω Σωματικήν έρευναν, ίλέβω (Rob), αιχνιδίζω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ּ"ל', ּרקו", ּרק". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Csóvál (to wag, to waggle), Átkutat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | geledah (search). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Fare Salti (frolic), Fare Capriole (caper, capriole, cavort), Saltellare (bond, caper, cavort, gambol, hop, jump, prance, skip, trip), Perquisire (ransack, search), Agitare (agitate, become upset, convulse, discompose, excite, flap, flirt, fluster, flutter, fly, fret, get excited, lash, rattle, ruffle, shake, shake up, stir, swing, toss, upset, wag, waggle, wave, wave about, wave around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ronsaghey (beat for game, consult; consultation, debate, examine, explore, forage, investigate, look into, ransack, rifle, rummage, scrutinize, scrutinizing, search, searching), lhiemmey (bounce, copulate, copulation, copulation of animals), lheimyragh (bounce, hop, jumping, leap, long jump, pounce, spring, vault, vaulting), daunseyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iskfray Frísio, Travessura (archness, caper, Dido, gambado, hob, mischievous, prank, waggery), Salto (bound, caper, dap, fling, gambade, gambado, gambol, heel, hop, jump, leap, ramp, shift, spring, tittup), Saltar (breach, caper, gambol, hop, jump, leap, skip, spring), Pulo (bounce, bound, buck, capriole, fling, hop, jump, leap, skip, spring), Pular (buck, capriole, hop, jump, jump over, leap, skip, spring), Dar Cambalhotas (caper, caracole, gambol), Cambalhota (caper, capriole, Dido, flippancy, flywheel, gambade, gambol, somersault, tumble, wheel), Brincar (coquet, fool, frolic, fun, game, have a good time, jape, jest, joke, Josh, kid, lark, play, romp, toy, trifle), Brincadeira (badinage, banter, dalliance, diversion, drollery, escape, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, game, gibe, gird, hoax, humor, humour, jape, jest, jibe, joke, joker, joky, Josh, lark, play, pleasantry, practical joke, prank, raillery, rig, sport, waggery). (various references) Zburda (caper, frolic, gambol, romp), Zbenguialã (fiskiness, frolic, frolicking, gambol, gamboling, riot), Se Zbengui (dally, frolic, gambol), Salt (bounce, bound, caper, dive, gambol, header, hop, jump, leap, resilience, saltation, skip, spring, start, vault, vaulting), Sãlta (Bob, bounce, bound, dance, heave up, help up, hod, hop, jump, leap, Mount, rebound, rise, skip, spring), Percheziţiona (search), Þopãi. (various references) Обыскивать, езвиться. (various references) pretresti (ransack, vex). (various references) Retozar (gambol, play, romp). (various references) Upptåg (antic, antics, caper, cod, Dido, escapade, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, high jinks, jinks, joke, lark, practical joke, prank, rag, spree), Skoj (caper, chaff, cheating, fraud, frolic, fun, gag, gyp, high jinks, humbug, humbuggery, imposture, jape, jest, jesting, joke, Josh, jugglery, kidding, lark, leg pull, sham, shenanigan, tomfoolery, trickery). (various references) Oynamak (act, budge, dance, enact, hop, interpret, jig, juggle, mess smth. about, monkey, move, perform, place one's bet, play, play around, play at, play on, play upon, play with, playact, portray, represent, shake a leg, toy, work), Oynaşmak (dally, play, play on, play upon, play with, play with each other, spoon), Kuyyruk Sallamak, Koşuşmak (run up), Üstünü Aramak. (various references) Крутити, Жарт, "ратися, Стрибок, Стрибати. (various references) sự nhảy cỡn (caper), sự nô đùa (frolic, play, sport). (various references) crychneidio (gambol, skip), campio (frolic, gambol). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lasciviens, lascivitis. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | frisque. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "frisk": frisked, frisker, friskers, frisket, friskets, friskier, friskiest, friskily, friskiness, friskinesses, frisking, frisks, frisky. (additional references) | |
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"Frisk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fdisk, Ferik, Fishko, frasch, frawk, freask, frek, fresc, frick, friek, friesa, Friesch, friesn, Frik, fris, Friso, friss, frist, frisy, friza, frizi, Fyris, Mrisc, prisk, trisk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frisk" (pronounced fri"sk) |
| 4 | -r i" s k | brisk, risk. |
| 3 | -i" s k | bisque, disc, disk, fisc, whisk. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-k-r-s" | |
-1 letter: firs, irks, kifs, kirs, kris, rifs, risk. | |
-2 letters: fir, ifs, irk, kif, kir, rif, sir, ski, sri. | |
-3 letters: if, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-k-r-s" | |
+1 letter: fakirs, frisks, frisky, kafirs, kefirs. | |
+2 letters: firkins, frisked, frisker, frisket, kaffirs, knifers, turfski. | |
+3 letters: disfrock, fakeries, finmarks, flickers, folksier, foreskin, forkiest, freakish, friskers, friskets, friskier, friskily, frisking, ratfinks, refusnik, rockfish, serflike, surflike, turfskis. | |
+4 letters: backfires, disfrocks, finnmarks, firebacks, firelocks, firepinks, fireworks, foremilks, foreskins, forklifts, forsaking, fossicker, franklins, freakiest, friskiest, kerchiefs, lifeworks, refusenik, refusniks, scarfskin, skidproof, trunkfish. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 72 69 73 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .. ... -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F r i s k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0072 0069 0073 006B |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4084758577 |
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