Flisky

a.¹ [f. FLISK sb. or v. + -Y¹.]

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1. Sc. Flighty, frolicsome; of a horse: Skittish.

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1807. Hogg, Auld Ettrick John, 8, Mount. Bard, 195.

	She frets an’ greets, an’ visits aft,
	In hopes some lad will see her hame;
	But never ane will be sae daft,
	As tent auld Johnie’s flisky dame.

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1856. G. Henderson, Pop. Rhymes Berwick, 48.

	You’re like Adam Black’s poney,
	Flisky, and pranky, and no very canny.

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1880. Antrim & Down Gloss., Flisky, skittish, specially applied to a mare which kicks when touched on the flank.

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2. south. dial. (See quots.)

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1866. Blackmore, Cradock Nowell, xxxi. First come fitful scuds of rain, ‘flisky’ rain they call it, loose outriders of the storm, spurning the soft ice.

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