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Definition of Friskers
1. frisker [n] - See also: frisker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Friskers
Literary usage of Friskers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life by Joseph Tinker Buckingham (1852)
"... Old enough to be tame, wild enough to be Young, — And, with smiles at command,
and heart in his hand, Took a frolicsome stand, the friskers among. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"... Hurrell, Marian 1., The adventures of friskers and his friends; Sizer, Kate
T., Samuel ; Harke, Kathleen, The magic nine-pin. Contents: K., H., Jesus, ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... From fair to fair the friskers roam, If charm'd with the embroider'd pride,
The victim of a gay outside, From place to place, as me just now, ..."
4. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and
pricking whiskers; Families by tens amid dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, ..."
5. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"... gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and
pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, ..."
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