Fisk
noun
James, 1834–72, U.S. financier and stock speculator.
Fisk
American
[fisk]
/ fɪsk /
noun
fisk
British
/ fɪsk /
verb
Etymology
Origin of fisk
C21: after the use of this technique by Robert Fisk (born 1946), British journalist, to criticize articles
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Matthew Josephson’s group portrait of the most powerful men of the Gilded Age—his subjects include Jay Gould, James Fisk, John D. Rockefeller and J.P.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
There Fisk tried to shift the focus to the threat of monopoly, telling the press they were fighting to keep food prices low for “the poorer classes especially.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
"This Muslim community, they're really good people, you know," said Katelynn Fisk, a neighbor who was out walking her dog.
From Barron's ● May 19, 2026
When Fisk becomes the mayor of New York, you put the villain at a really, really elevated place.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
During my freshman year at Fisk, in 1965, a friend introduced us.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
But a large stretch of this water is rented by the Kalkis fisk Klubb.
From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
"Any time you wanting a salmon fisk I give you one free."
From Lady Luck by Wiley, Hugh
Fisc, fisk, n. the state treasury: the public revenue: one's purse.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Take me from Pevensey to fisk and flyte through fern and forest, and in three days Robert’s keels would be lying on Pevensey mud with ten thousand men!
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rackham, Arthur
"If de salmon fisk been running like dis tree day more Aye cleans oop sax t'ousand doller."
From Lady Luck by Wiley, Hugh
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