Obs. Also 6 fruskin, 7 frisquin. [f. FRISK sb. or v. + -in (? for -ING1).]
1. A brisk lively action; a frolic, playful encounter. To try a friskin: to have a brush (see BRUSH sb.2 1). Also to dance friskin.
1570. Levins, Manip., 133. Fruskin, saltus.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, To Rdr. (1871), 18. This is a light friskin of my wit.
1612. Two Noble K., IV. iii. The pranks And friskins of her madness.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. ii. III. iii. (1651), 472. It was the custome of some lascivious queans to dance friskin in that fashion.
1675–93. Crowne, Country Wit, I. Dram. Wks. 1874, III. 35. Yes, Betty Frisque and you shall try a frisquin for him,—you shall duel it, you shall.
2. A gay frisky person.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, 143. His Wench or Friskin was footing it aloft on the greene.
1602. Dekker, Satiro-mastix, Wks. 1873, I. 217. Sir quin.… I gaue thee this chaine, manlie Tucca. Tuc. I? saist thou so, Friskin?
