frolic
/ˈfɹɑlɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.68 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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; [...]"
- "Beale, under this frolic menace, took nothing back at all; he was indeed apparently on the point of repeating his extravagence, but Miss Overmore instructed her little charge that she was not to listen to his bad jokes [...]."
- "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"
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹɑlɪk/
- British English: /ˈfɹɒlɪk/
Usage
- Archaic
- Obsolete
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- American usage
Inflected Forms
more frolic (comparative)
most frolic (superlative)
frolick (alternative)
frolics (present, singular)
frolicking (participle, present)
frolicked (participle, past)
frolicked (past)
frolics (plural)