Definition of Fyking
1. fyke [v] - See also: fyke
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Literary usage of Fyking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"If you take her own word for it, no one is more contemptuous of " fyking " and " making a wark " than Jenny of Burnside ; but the kitchen—woe be to the ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1883)
"... comes fyking, ye can say I am giving the case my best attention; and if it's that big north-country fellow about his manse and his augmentation—” “I ..."
3. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Lucy Bird (1886)
"without praye r—prayer chiefly that God would give him a happy death, He had previously promised that he would not hurry or scold, but " fyking" had not ..."
4. The Heart of Mid-Lothian by Walter Scott (1878)
"... when he left her bubbling and greeting, and came to an outer court, where her Lady Maries were fyking and dancing, he said, ' 0 brave ladies, ..."
5. The Chaucer Canon: With a Discussion of the Works Associated with the Name by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"... for fyking, &c. Sad to say, some of these spellings are downright blunders; it is astonishing to find ranne for ran, tooke for took, sytte for sit (she ..."