Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stroke; a lash.
- To carry away or about; carry; move.
- To drive away.
- To beat; drub; trounce.
- To rouse; raise up.
- To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly: sometimes used reflexively.
- noun A freak; a trick.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To beat; to strike; to chastise.
- noun obsolete A freak; trick; quirk.
- intransitive verb obsolete To fly out; to turn out; to go off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
freak ;trick ;quirk . - verb transitive To carry away or about;
carry ;move . - verb transitive To
drive away. - verb obsolete To have
sexual intercourse , tocopulate . - verb transitive To
rouse ;raise up. - verb intransitive To move quickly;
go off orfly out suddenly; turn out. - noun A
stroke ;lash .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eric tickled me awake at, firk, it must have been 7 because he went to work early.
February 22nd, 2002 2002
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I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
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Otherwise I would have already frickin 'uninstalled the firk-dang-blasted thing ...
November 29th, 2001 2001
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Franklin Butchering hoggs - Will brought 2 loads wood home and delivered one to John Miller Coach maker; I wrote and sent it by Caroline to Mr. Shindler he send by her a tin firk for the purpose of Lard recd a letter from A. Shafer stateing the cost in part for repairing my House in S. Town.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Gentlemen, lets in again and firk it away, shall we not?
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.
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As for Tontonteac and Dasamonquepeuc, I shall imitate the manly frankness of the boy in _Henry V. _, and say, "I do not know what is the French for fer, and ferret, and firk."
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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I'll rattle him up, I warrant you, I'll firk him with a _certiorari_.
The Double-Dealer, a comedy William Congreve 1699
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You firk him, I'll firk him myself; pray, Sir Paul, hold you contented.
The Double-Dealer, a comedy William Congreve 1699
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You firk him, I'll firk him myself; pray, Sir Paul, hold you contented.
The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] William Congreve 1699
azd commented on the word firk
v. t. 1. To beat; to strike; to chastise.
"I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him."-Shakespeare.
v. i. 1.To fly out; to turn out; to go off.
"A wench is a rare bait, with which a man
No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad." -B.Jonson.
n. 1. A freak; trick; quirk.
September 24, 2007
john commented on the word firk
Fantastic! From Henry V.
September 24, 2007
uselessness commented on the word firk
No firkin way!
September 24, 2007
yarb commented on the word firk
Remorse for his delinquencies was to be excited only by sympathy; so that whenever it became necessary to make a bloody example, my seat of vengeance was firked most unmercifully.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1
September 19, 2008