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flisky (comparative more flisky, superlative most flisky)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Frisky; inclined to flisk (frisk) or caper.
   • 1856, George Henderson, The Popular Rhymes, Sayings, and Proverbs of the County of Berwick, page 48:

     You're like ADAM BLACK's poney, Flisky, and pranky, and no very canny; […]

2. (Scotland, Northern England) Sprinkly; flisking.
   • 1881, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest, page 177:

     First came fitful scuds of rain, "flisky" rain they call it, loose outriders of the storm, spurning the soft ice, as they dashed by, and lashing the woodman's windows.

   • 2003, Ed Wicke, Mattie and the Highwaymen, page 104:

     'Flisky rain,' Tom announced with dismal satisfaction. 'Be like this all day, I reckons. Drops so tiny you'd think they'd not do more'n wet your hair. But it'll drench you top to end, y'know?'