FROLICSOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frolicsome mean? 

• FROLICSOME (adjective)
  The adjective FROLICSOME has 1 sense:

1. given to merry frolicking

  Familiarity information: FROLICSOME used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROLICSOME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given to merry frolicking

Synonyms:

coltish; frolicky; frolicsome; rollicking; sportive

Context example:

frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes

Similar:

playful (full of fun and high spirits)

Derivation:

frolicsomeness (lively high-spirited playfulness)

 Context examples 

All the blame of this should have fallen upon Jo, for her naughty imitation had been too lifelike to escape detection, and the frolicsome Lambs had permitted the joke to escape.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Diana, who chanced to be in a frolicsome humour (she was not painfully controlled by his will; for hers, in another way, was as strong), exclaimed—St. John! you used to call Jane your third sister, but you don't treat her as such: you should kiss her too.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The handsomest among these maids of honour, a pleasant, frolicsome girl of sixteen, would sometimes set me astride upon one of her nipples, with many other tricks, wherein the reader will excuse me for not being over particular.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As I sat quietly meditating at my table, I heard something bounce in at the closet-window, and skip about from one side to the other: whereat, although I was much alarmed, yet I ventured to look out, but not stirring from my seat; and then I saw this frolicsome animal frisking and leaping up and down, till at last he came to my box, which he seemed to view with great pleasure and curiosity, peeping in at the door and every window.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)