fisk

Meanings

1. To run about; to fist; to whisk.

1. To rebut an argument line by line, especially on the Internet.

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
3. An unincorporated community in Richland Township, Adair County, Iowa.
4. A minor city in Butler County, Missouri.
5. An unincorporated community in the town of Utica, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.

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”).