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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Gaiety; merriment: fun and frolic.
  2. n. A gay, carefree time.
  3. n. A playful antic.
  4. v. To behave playfully and uninhibitedly; romp.
  5. v. To engage in merrymaking, joking, or teasing.
  6. adj. Archaic Merry.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Gay; merry; sportive; full of mirth or pranks.
  2. n. A flight of levity or gaiety and mirth; a prank.
  3. n. A scene of gaiety and mirth, as in dancing or play; a merrymaking.
  4. n. A plaything or an ornament.
  5. n. Synonyms Gambol, escapade.
  6. To play merry pranks; engage in acts of levity, mirth, and gaiety.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
  2. adj. obsolete, rare Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
  3. n. Gaiety; merriment.
  4. n. A playful antic.
  5. v. intransitive To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
  6. v. transitive, archaic To cause to be merry.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
  2. n. A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
  3. n. A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
  4. v. To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. play boisterously
  2. n. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement

Etymologies

  1. From Dutch vrolijk ("cheerful"). Compare German fröhlich ("blitheful, gaily, happy, merry"). (Wiktionary)
  2. From Dutch vrolijk, merry, from Middle Dutch vrolijc : vro, happy + -lijc, -like; see līk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • duckbill As an adjective:

    "It was sweet to see them so frolic." Apr 23, 2011

  • bilby A possibly fun village in Northumberland, England. Jan 1, 2008

  • ravages cues green, rolling meadows.
    cues warm sunlight and a gentle breeze.
    Dec 15, 2007

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