friskily

1. 1.

   in a playfully frisky manner

   “he moves about friskily despite his age”

Questions about friskily

What does friskily mean?

friskily means "in a playfully frisky manner".

How many syllables are in friskily?

friskily has 3 syllables and divides as fri-ski-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is friskily a common word?

friskily is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.