rollicking
/ɹˈɑlɪkɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.39 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
carefree, merry and boisterous
Example Sentences
- "Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm going to give him the rollicking of his life."
- "He can give someone a right rollicking but it comes over as advice."
- "That night, back at the billet, Corporal Banks summoned me to his room and there I stood to attention, whilst he gave me a roasting for getting him a rollicking from the sergeant."
- "Tin Maung gave an order and in due course the head-waiter arrived, a rollicking Shan with shining bald head and Manchu moustaches, carrying a dish heaped with scrawny chickens' limbs, jaundiced with curry, a bowl of rice and a couple of aluminium plates."
- "The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters)."
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
rollocking (alternative)
rollickings (plural)
more rollicking (comparative)
most rollicking (superlative)