frisky

The thrill of these frisky flyweights is getting them to, and holding them at and around, the instantaneous limits of the tires—sawing at the wheel, pouring on the coal, pitching and catching.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

Suppler than Tom Paxton’s original; not as frisky as Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton’s cover.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

High-end and low-end customers alike adored his frisky, unpredictable spirit — both on and off the runway.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2026

The S&P 500 is up a frisky 15% so far this year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

He had spent most of the day ambling around and sleeping, so that by now he seemed almost frisky and quite eager to walk a little.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford

Had the movie emerged as a friskier game of eat the rich, it might have had a fighting chance of survival.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

Anitta came up as a choir girl in the church she attended with her maternal grandparents, but funk carioca, Brazil’s friskier, rhythmic approach to hip-hop, had captivated the singer from a young age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2022

In June, Simon will release his thirteenth solo album, “Stranger to Stranger,” which is friskier and funnier than its recent predecessors—his most danceable music in decades.

From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016

Yet if Osborne seems already to have decided what the commission's conclusions should be, its members have looked friskier.

From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013

In friskier moods, she performed lazy pirouettes, as though to the accompaniment of my own music box, which I always brought to the roof to keep me company.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Netflix promises the documentary will feature the cats' "finest and friskiest moments," so ailurophiles — you're in for a treat.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2021

He chewed the ears off a squeaky pink stuffed rabbit and now parades around the house with its earless body whenever he’s at his friskiest.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2021

These are the ones families often pick from a litter because they stand out as the brightest and friskiest.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 6, 2021

Among the friskiest selections are “Arboretum,” by Tony Williams, and “Zoot Suite,” by Jack DeJohnette; among the more plaintive are Ed Blackwell’s “Togo” and Paul Motian’s “It Should’ve Happened a Long Time Ago.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2010

"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."

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