a. Pretty brisk.
1844. Lloyd’s Newsp., 10 March, 4/5. The advocates of free-trade said, that if a briskish time came wages would rise. He (Mr. Burrows) had often seen briskish times as regarded work, but he had seen very briskish times as regarded wages.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVI. vi. VI. 208. A briskish trade of his own in the Dresden marts.
