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- verb Present participle of
firk .
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Examples
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Ivy studied the next bush, spiking the soil around the base, firking clods with her trowel.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Ivy studied the next bush, spiking the soil around the base, firking clods with her trowel.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Pedantius, that exquisite Comedy in Trinity College; where under the chief part, from which it took his name, as namely the concise and firking finicaldo fine School master, he was full drawn and delineated from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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Adveniat; oats will do, there's evidence in the case; but none of the rubbing down, none of the firking.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Adveniat; oats will do, there’s evidence in the case; but none of the rubbing down, none of the firking.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Adveniat; oats will do, there’s evidence in the case; but none of the rubbing down, none of the firking.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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