Fisk Definition

fĭsk
fisks
verb
To criticize and refute (a published article or argument), especially in point-by-point or line-by-line fashion on a blog.
American Heritage
To fisk an article or argument.
American Heritage

(obsolete) To run about; to frisk; to whisk.

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Origin of Fisk

  • After Robert Fisk (born 1946), British journalist, some of whose controversial reports on the Middle East were criticized on blogs

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare Swedish fjeska (“to bustle about").

    From Wiktionary

  • Back-formation from fisking.

    From Wiktionary

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