Obs. Also 6 frysca, frischo, 7 friska, friskoe; pl. -os, -oes, -as. [? Pseudo-It. form of FRISK sb.]
1. A brisk movement in dancing; a caper.
1519. Interl. 4 Elem. (1848), 45. That shall both daunce and spryng … With fryscas and with gambawdes round.
1566. J. Partridge, Plasidas, B iij. With fetching frischoes here and there.
1598. Barckley, Felic. Man, I. (1603), 38. Hee fetched at the last such a frisco, that he fell downe and brake his necke, and the Gentlewoman also that daunced with him: the just judgement of God.
1608. Armin, Nest. Ninn. (1880), 56. Shee longed to heare his friscoes morallized, and his gambals set downe.
1634. Ford, P. Warbeck, III. ii. Observe the friska, be enchanted With the rare discord of bells, pipes, and tabours.
1675. Teonge, Diary (1825), 50. Having taken their frisco, returnd as they cam.
2. Applied to a person as a term of endearment. (Cf. FRISKIN 2.)
a. 1652. Brome, New Acad., I. Wks. 1873, II. 3. Where’s my Boykin? my Friskoe? my Delight?
