[f. FRISK v. + -ING2.] That frisks, in senses of the vb. † Of wine: Sparkling.
1566. Drant, Horace’s Sat., I. F ij. Fragrant friskyng wyne.
1610. Dr. Dodypoll, III. i., in Bullen, O. Pl., III. 122. The Doctor would make a fine frisking usher in a dauncing schoole.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., III. 105. The quick Motions of the frisking Tail.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XIII. 296. The bounding goats and frisking heifers rove.
1827. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 21. A certain snappishness—a frisking abruptness.
Hence Friskingly adv., in a frisking or frisky manner. In mod. Dicts.
