frolic

UK /ˈfɹɒlɪk/ US /ˈfɹɑlɪk/
noun 3adj 2verb 2

Definitions

adj

1

Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.

The frolick wind that breathes the Spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying There on Beds of Violets blew,

For women, born to be controul’d, Stoop to the forward and the bold, Affect the haughty and the proud, The gay, the frollick, and the loud.

2

Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

verb

1

To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.

We saw the lambs frolicking in the meadow.

Fools on parade frolic and fuck about to make her gaze Turn to a scribble on a page by a picture that holds her absence But you're daft to think she'd care

2

To cause to be merry.

noun

1

Gaiety; merriment.

the annual jubilee […] filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.

By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.

2

A playful antic.

He would be at his frolic once again.

3

A social gathering.

He came clattering up to the school door with an invitation to Ichabod to attend a merry-making or “quilting frolic,” to be held that evening at Mynheer Van Tassel’s

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