dial. [f. next.]
1. A whim, a freak. Sc.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xxviii. There is something in Miss Ashton’s change, a devilish deal too sudden, and too serious for a mere flisk of her own.
2. A fillip with the finger. In a flisk: ‘in a jiffy’ (Whitby Gloss., 1855).
1891. J. C. Atkinson, The Last of the Giant Killers, 86. And so down his [the wolf’s] throat she goes in a flisk.
3. In various concrete senses: a. A ‘whisk’ made of twigs or horsehair for brushing away dust, flies, etc. (Halliwell, 1847; Berks. Gloss., 1888). b. A large-toothed comb (Halliwell, 1847; W. Cornw. Gloss., 1880). c. A syringe (Whitby Gloss., 1876).
