frisky adj.
1. ill-tempered, charged with aggression.
![]() | Sporting Times 7 Apr. 1/4: As for Jim, he’s no brute, but he’s frisky. | ‘A Courting Case in Court’|
![]() | (ref. to 1880) Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. | |
![]() | Semi-Tough 190: It would be about eleven-fifteen when we got there [i.e. a stadium], he said, and that would give us plenty of time. ‘To get frisky for them piss ants,’ he said. |
2. sexually aroused.
![]() | Into the Deep 47: It was just us, Michael and me, feeling frisky and perhaps a little bored. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
(drugs) cocaine.
![]() | AS XXX:2 87: FRISKY POWDER, n.phr. Cocaine. | ‘Narcotic Argot Along the Mexican Border’ in|
![]() | ‘Gloss. of Drug Terms’ National Instit. Drug Abuse. | |
![]() | ONDCP Street Terms 9: Friskie powder — Cocaine. |