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Definition of Fisking
1. Noun. A rebuttal to an article or blog made by quoting its content in sections and refuting each section individually. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fisking
1. fisk [v] - See also: fisk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fisking
Literary usage of Fisking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Whitgift by John Whitgift, John Ayre (1851)
"To be short, you say now they go "fisking from place to place, ... If you mean,
by " fisking from place to place," such as preach in divers places, ..."
2. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"Then had every flock his shepherd, or else shepherds ; now they do not only run
fisking about from place to place, . . but covetously join living to living. ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"2 ; ' fisking about the house', Otway, Venice Preserved, ii. 1 (Pierre).
A Shropshire word (EDD.). fist, a contemptuous expression; ' Fist o' your kindness! ..."
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