frolicsome

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Lady was frolicsome, and Richard was perfectly well The day before they were to start he took the mare out for a gallop across the fields.

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  1. adjective Full of high-spirited fun; frisky and playful.

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  • Miss “Tizy” Smith was, he says the last survivor of that school of noisy, frolicsome, boisterous old ladies given to punning and banging people on the back; but she was very witty, and, for those who had spirits to bear her spirits, most entertaining. —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1
  • It was very lively and frolicsome, and served to make merry many an hour that otherwise would have lagged heavily on their hands. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
  • She came on, in a kind of half-frolicsome, half-angry canter, shaking her horns; and Caleb, before he got very near her, began to be somewhat frightened. —  Caleb in the Country
  • When Jim Nixon and his wife, chasing each other merrily back and forth across the dewy path like the frolicsome young married couple they were, reached the door-yard, they found the old man fallen "mopy" in a way uncommon for him, and quite given over to a thoughtless, expressionless torpor and staring You'll be tired-like, grampa, eh?" —  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Her shapely head had a proud uplift which was new and in unguarded moments her red, sensitive lips had a droop that he had not noticed before Essie Tisdale was not, in her feelings, unlike a frolicsome puppy that has received its first vicious kick. —  The Lady Doc
 

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sportive ·  jocular ·  gamesome ·  mirthful ·  playful ·  frisky ·  roguish ·  jocund ·  buoyant ·  blithe ·  jovial ·  sprightly
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  1. Formerly also frolicksome, -som; from frolic + -some.
 

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/ˈfrɑlɪksəm/
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