frisky
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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
Fans are feeling frisky about a plan to transform the building into a bar, campaigning against the idea in letters to city board members and online.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
The S&P 500 is up a frisky 15% so far this year.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
At a respectably subordinate distance behind Joseph came the women of Galilee, mixed in with a motley, perhaps gate-crashing crowd of mourners, spectators, children, and no less than three frisky, impious mongrels.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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