FRISK
What does "FRISK" mean?
To search someone by patting their clothing for hidden weapons or items.
Meanings
- To run the hands over a person's body and clothes in search of concealed objects. Security frisked every passenger before the flight.
- To leap and skip about playfully. The lambs frisked across the meadow at dawn.
- An act of patting someone down to search them. A quick frisk at the door turned up nothing.
Word origin
From Old French 'frisque' meaning lively or brisk, of Germanic origin; the playful 'skip about' sense came first, and the body-search sense followed, recorded from 1781.
Remember it
FRISK = a quick RISK check at the door, plus the F of Fast hands.
A little poem
Spring lamb in the field
and the guard's flat patting hands -
one word holds them both.
haiku
Wordplay
- The puppy at the airport never gets searched. Officers say it's too busy frisking to be frisked.
What it teaches
The same word can dance or detain; meaning lives in the hand, not the motion.
Quick facts
What does FRISK mean?
To search someone by patting their clothing for hidden weapons or items.
Is FRISK a valid word?
Yes — FRISK is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FRISK?
FRISK has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FRISK come from?
From Old French 'frisque' meaning lively or brisk, of Germanic origin; the playful 'skip about' sense came first, and the body-search sense followed, recorded from 1781.
What can FRISK teach us?
The same word can dance or detain; meaning lives in the hand, not the motion.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.