frolic
IPA: frˈɑɫɪk
noun
- Gaiety; merriment.
- A playful antic.
- (obsolete, chiefly US) A social gathering.
verb
- (intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
- (transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.
adjective
- (now rare) Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
- (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
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Examples of "frolic" in Sentences
- Anyone who would self-identify as a frolic-er is a dorc.
- What the hell, the word frolic has no business on a football blog.)
- Tom laughed, as he recalled the frolic he had been on the night before.
- And Tom laughed, as he recalled the frolic he had been on the night before.
- And this, too, I suppose she calls a frolic; or, in her own vulgar language, fun.
- We looked up in the dictionary the word frolic, and it's -- the definition is something like a playful, mischievous action.
- In all there was an air of release, and the young people looked as if they were going to one of the social gatherings they would have called a frolic, in the backwoods phrase.
- But if such was her mischievous purpose she was completely disappointed; for Roland Graeme, internally piquing himself on his self-command, neither laughed nor was discomposed; and all that the maiden gained by her frolic was a severe rebuke from her companion, taxing her with mal-address and indecorum.
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