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Firk

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v. t.1.To beat; to strike; to chastise.
I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him.
- Shak.
v. i.1.To fly out; to turn out; to go off.
A wench is a rare bait, with which a man
No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.B.Jonson.
n.1.A freak; trick; quirk.


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Staging Domesticity provides a map for reading that could illuminate other Renaissance texts as well: Rabelais, for example, whose battle of the chitterlings versus Lent is marvelous "kitchen stuff"; Cervantes, whose hero, like Dekker's apprentice shoemaker Firk, has visions of animated comestibles marching to heroic encounters; European epic in general, which variously represents women's magical potions and promises of bodily cure as challenges to masculine identity and national projects.
But Tanya Firk Klarer of Dallas thinks a little debt to express generosity is OK.
 
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