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Meanings of lark about in English

Portuguese
fazer travessuras
Catalan
saltar

Play boisterously.

      fazer travessuras
      Usage of lark about in English
      1
      They must have been dining, sir, and seemed more inclined to lark about than to listen to good music.
      The Phantom of the Opera
      2
      The Unthanks tend to lark about onstage, but when they play they infuse their work with a rare sensuality and seriousness.
      The Irish Times
      3
      The height was over eighty feet; but the descent was a mere nothing for Dick, accustomed to lark about in the rigging of a man-o'-war.
      In Times of Peril: A Tale of India
      4
      Well, he larks about with 'em, but he just flirts for sport.
      L'Assommoir
      5
      Suddenly the same group is a gang of children larking about at football.
      The Guardian
      6
      Men were larking about on the bikes along a pavement stained with vomit.
      Atonement
      7
      Larking about, she spontaneously kisses him, taking his attention away from the control board.
      Reuters
      8
      At one level, it was just us kids larking about.
      Never let me go
      9
      Antoinette was still larking about, and tugging at her brother to make him run.
      Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
      10
      Margot shook her head angrily- adangerousgame; he was larking about like a schoolboy.
      Laughter in the dark
      11
      He's larking about somewhere, that's what he's doing, leaving us to do all the work.
      Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
      12
      They think they can make money larking about.
      The death of ivan ilyich: and, master and man
      13
      Well, just to be safe, you're not to go larking about in them fields no more.
      The story of cirrus flux
      14
      Larking about is what my father called it.
      The Irish Times
      15
      So what are we larking about here for?
      Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
      16
      Not quite the sort of place where you might expect to find Ireland's gastronomic bourgeois larking about.
      The Irish Times
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