Lexicographical Neighbors of Flisking
Literary usage of Flisking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... feathers fond To flit away the flisking flies, As tail of mare that hangs on
ground, When heat of summer doth arise. The wit of women we might praise, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
""Don't get flisking that coin about." A horse or cow is said to FLISK its tail.
FLITTER-MOUSE. sb. Abat. [Dumbleton. ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain), Shakespeare Society, London (1841)
"... feathers fond To flit away the flisking flies, As tail of mare that hangs on
ground, When heat of summer doth arise, The wit of women we might praise, ..."
4. The School of Abuse: Containing a Pleasant Invective Against Poets, Pipers by Stephen Gosson (1841)
"... feathers fond To flit away the flisking flies, As tail of mare that hangs on
ground, When heat of summer doth arise. The wit of women we might praise. ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"... to flit away the flisking flies, As taile of mare that hangs on ground, when
heat of summer doth arrise, The wit of women we might praise For finding ..."
6. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1835)
"Dim and dubious twilight in a long line rests upon the hilly outline in the
east—bats are flisking among the willows—silent and sullen flows the current of ..."
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