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  • adjective superlative form of frisky: most frisky.

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Examples

  • Well, if it was, it was the warmest-bodied, friskiest, most solid spook there ever was.

    Old Tin Sorrows Cook, Glen 1989

  • He liked to pet and romp with her, to carry her on his back and caper around like the friskiest of ponies.

    Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley

  • "The smallest, friskiest ones, I think, are young ladies, by the way they switched along behind the others and hung back kind of shy-like."

    Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • "And I'll tell you how this same lady induced me to put on those foolish togs and hire the friskiest horse at Clayton's," further volunteered Shirley.

    Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft

  • One of the judge's friskiest colts was circling madly about the driveway, while astride of it, in triumph, sat Annette, her dress ripped at the belt, her hair flying.

    Sandy Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • One was the friskiest dog he had ever seen in his life.

    The Little Colonel Annie Fellows 1895

  • One was the friskiest dog he had ever seen in his life.

    The Little Colonel 1897

  • He did not know enough about horses to put a snaffle-bit in one's mouth, and yet he would draw the friskiest, most mettlesome animal in the corral, upon whose back he was scarcely more at home than he would be upon a slack rope.

    Andersonville John McElroy 1887

  • He did not know enough about horses to put a snaffle-bit in one's mouth, and yet he would draw the friskiest, most mettlesome animal in the corral, upon whose back he was scarcely more at home than he would be upon a slack rope.

    Andersonville — Volume 2 John McElroy 1887

  • As Eva and her attendant, Magdalena, leave the church, the apprentices enter to arrange for the trial, among them David, the friskiest of them all, who is in love with Magdalena.

    The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers 1876

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