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Meanings of frolicky in English

Given to merry frolicking.

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        Examples for "rollicking"
        1
        The rollicking new number 'Party Boy' with its jealous and threatening sentiments.
        Radio NZ
        2
        It was the music of love and youth; joyous, rollicking, pulsing music.
        The Man on the Box
        3
        At one stage they were rollicking along at seven runs an over.
        The Guardian
        4
        A rollicking opening phase had it all: goals, shocks and excitement aplenty.
        The Guardian
        5
        Also check out his rollicking Crystal Castles' remix on his Soundcloud page.
        The Irish Times
        1
        The red coals passed away and the sportive flames ceased to dance.
        The Forest Runners: A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kent...
        2
        The coals glowed deep red, and the sportive flames danced before him.
        The Forest Runners: A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kent...
        3
        The Fates have always been sportive so far as I was concerned.
        Charles Rex
        4
        I am not in a sportive humour now: where is the money?
        The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 / Books for Childr...
        5
        His fancy was brilliant and sportive, and his imagination varied and fantastic.
        Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
        1
        At home, in the woods, he is the most frolicsome and loquacious.
        Winter Sunshine
        2
        But Elsie would never be the frolicsome child of the past again.
        Taken Alive
        3
        He knew he was the quicker, and the knowledge made him frolicsome.
        Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01
        4
        Gnulemah was in a frolicsome humor, the reaction of her foregoing solemnity.
        Idolatry: A Romance
        5
        Charles was twenty-one- aboyin feeling and temperament, a frolicsome, heedless boy.
        Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 / Little J...
        1
        With her slightness, her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
        In the night room: a novel
        2
        My chin comes to his shoulder, we are both dainty, long-limbed, coltish: well-matched.
        The Kingmaker’s Daughter
        3
        She'd been eleven when the Americans invaded, and hardly even coltish.
        American empire: blood and iron
        4
        They watched as the girl, long-limbed and coltish, approached Cameron near the exit.
        Table for five
        5
        They're full of life, and coltish spirits, and dance, and song.
        The Little Lady of the Big House
        Usage of frolicky in English
        1
        The filly was well rested, frolicky.
        Brotherhood of the Wolf
        2
        It's frolicky to hear him.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 / Magazi...
        3
        But a little too frolicky that air.-Yethave I prepared my beloved to expect in you both great vivacity and quality-freedom
        Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6
        4
        Frado is such a wild, frolicky thing, and means to do jest as she's a mind to; she won't go if she don't want to.
        Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-st...
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        Frolicky through the time