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- noun obsolete, Scotland
practical joke
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Examples
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Gin I cud only win at that, maybe I cud play him a plisky.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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Faith! yon was an ill plisky ye played me to brak into my chop an 'steal the bonnie leddy.'
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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Man, they're a 'oot to Scaurnose to see the plisky.
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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"Jist playin 'a plisky on ye, and he meant that TOM wad pit ye in the way o' becoming a player.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892 Various 1876
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