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Frolic   /frˈɑlɪk/   Listen
noun
Frolic  n.  
1.
A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth. "He would be at his frolic once again."
2.
A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.


verb
Frolic  v. i.  (past & past part. frolicked; pres. part. frolicking)  To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport. "Hither, come hither, and frolic and play."


adjective
Frolic  adj.  Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. "The frolic wind that breathes the spring." "The gay, the frolic, and the loud."





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"Frolic" Quotes from Famous Books



... commanded naturally drew folks out of doors. Finer weather could not be imagined. The distance from the lawn to the wharf, by way of the winding road, measured not less than a quarter of a mile. The boys raced ahead in the frolic fashion of human colts, yelling, leaping and throwing stones. Slowly the matron and her escort followed, far in the wake of ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... alluded to these dinners the next morning at their simple breakfast with Gervaise. Naturally people cannot frolic and work, too, and since Lantier had become a member of his household Coupeau had never lifted a tool. He knew every drinking shop for miles around and would sit and guzzle deep into the night, not always pleased to find himself deserted by Lantier, who never ...
— L'Assommoir • Emile Zola
... told her father. "He will play and chase sticks and growl, and pretend to bite when I tickle him, but he does it all with a kind of mental reservation. Yesterday, when we were having our regular frolic after breakfast, he stopped suddenly and stood looking out across the mesa, and it was only my pony, just coming from the edge of the woods. Bondsman tries to be polite, but he is really just passing the time while he is ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... See dis li'l' teeny black spot on de und'neath part? Well, dat's a sho' sign of a witch rabbit. A witch rabbit he hang round a buryin' ground, but he don't go inside of one—naw, suh, not never nur nary. He ain't dare to. He stay outside an' frolic wid de ha'nts w'en dey comes fo'th, but da's all. De onliest thing which dey is to do when you kills a witch rabbit is to cut off de haid f'um de body an' bury de haid on de north side of a log, an' den bury de body on de south side so's dey can't jine together ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb
... honored by courting their dears: This museum of wittols was comical rather; Old Headfort gave Massey, and I gave your father. In short, not a soul till this morning would budge— We were all fun and frolic, and even the Judge Laid aside for the time his juridical fashion, And thro' the whole night wasn't once in ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al


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