frisking

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of frisk

noun

  1. The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol.
    They are no longer to be amused according to custom, as a mob with the cant of a mountebank, and the leapings, friskings, gambols, and stale jests of tumblers and clowns. 1809, Eaton Stannard Barrett, The setting sun

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