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frolic

adj
/ˈfɹɒlɪk/UK/ˈfɹɑlɪk/US

Etymology

From Dutch vrolijk (“cheerful”), from Middle Dutch vrolijc, from Old Dutch frōlīk, from Proto-Germanic *frawalīkaz. Compare German fröhlich (“blitheful, gaily, happy, merry”). The first element, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *frawaz, is cognate with Middle English frow (“hasty”); the latter element, ultimately from *-līkaz, is cognate with -ly, -like.

  1. derived from *frawaz✻
  2. derived from *frawalīkaz✻
  3. derived from frōlīk
  4. derived from vrolijc
  5. derived from vrolijk

Definitions

  1. Merry, joyous, full of mirth

    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.
    • You meet him at the tables and conversations of the wise, the impertinent, the grave, the frolic, and the witty; [...]

  2. Free

    Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

  3. To make merry

    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
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To cause to be merry.

    2. Gaiety

      Gaiety; merriment.

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

    3. A playful antic.

      • He would be at his frolic once again.

    4. 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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Derived

rollick, frolicful, frolicker, frolicky, frolicly, frolicness, frolic of his own, frolic pad, frolicsome, milling frolic, turtle frolic

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at frolic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01frolic02merry03jolly04merriment05playful06frolicsome07frolicking08frolics

A definitional loop anchored at frolic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at frolic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA