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fisk

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/fɪsk/

Definition of fisk

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (obsolete)To run about; to fist; to whisk.
    “[W]hen the light of Goddes word is once reueled, then he is buſy, then he rores then he fyſkes abrode, and ſtyrreth vp erronious opiniõs.”
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verb

  1. (obsolete)To run about; to fist; to whisk.
    “[W]hen the light of Goddes word is once reueled, then he is buſy, then he rores then he fyſkes abrode, and ſtyrreth vp erronious opiniõs.”
  2. To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.
    “A proper fisking leaves the reader with a clear understanding that the text so fisked was appallingly wrong in every important respect!”
    “Now, apparently, Barack Obama's campaign is fisking Hillary Clinton's campaign memos.”

name

  1. A surname.
  2. A place in the United States:
  3. A place in the United States:
  4. A place in the United States:

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Etymology

From Middle English fisken, fisshen. Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old English *fȳscian, an iterative form of fȳsan (“to hasten”), thus equivalent to feeze + -k, and faze + -k. Compare also Swedish fjäska (“to bustle about”).

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