Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. sexual intercourse.

1629		W. Davenant Albovine I i: She is none o’th’ French nursery that practise The sublime frisk. None o’ your jigging girls, That perch paraquitoes on their fists, And ride to the Court like Venus’ falconers.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy I 274: Since Dame Fortune is my Foe, And that I must to Prison go; / Let’s have a Neat frisk or so.

2. fun, amusement.

1812		Vaux Vocab. of the Flash Lang.
1825		C.M. Westmacott Eng. Spy vi 162: Dick’s a trump and no telegraph – up to every frisk, and down to every move of the domini, thoroughbred and no want of courage [F&H].
1833		‘The Trotting Horse’ in Convivialist in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 17: If any frisk or milling match should call me out of town / I will pass the blades, with white cockades, their whiskers hanging down.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.