Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To behave or move in a carefree, frolicsome manner; romp.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To move in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; swagger; be jovial in behavior.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. play boisterously
Etymologies
- Presumably a blend of roll and frolic; appeared 1811 as rollicking, 1826 as rollick. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Those of you who remember my "Memorize A Book To Keep Alive In The Post-Apocalyptic World" thread may be interested in rollick's current question:”
Ferrett Randomness: Frosting Julie With A Point-Based Sitcom
“Getty Images Rose Sloan of River Forest, Ill., misspelled the word "rollick" at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel Thursday.”
“The ref fails to notice and dimisses the appeals for a penalty.45+1 min: After a bout of Norwich possession, Spurs retrieve the ball and rollick forward.”
The Guardian: Norwich City v Tottenham Hotspur – as it happened | Paul Doyle
“Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen.”
“This is the band that grumbles along with the desperate yet careless fortitude that it takes to make the unbearable elements of existence become compressed into a four-minute rollick that imparts both malaise and joy.”
The Huffington Post: Angora Holly Polo: The Problem of Leisure: Special UMS 2010 Edition
“The spiritual "Stand by Me" opens as a minimalist meditation, with the vocalist's falsetto set against t he shimmer of Greg Leisz's pedal-steel guitar — but then the piano begins to rollick and a chorus swoops in with prayer-meeting fervor.”
“In Act III, Scene II, left alone on stage after one of the blissful scenes featuring two of the young couples (Elizabeth and Clerval, Safie and Felix), they rollick through a pun-filled dialogue about a "beehive cap" that Fritz was supposed to bring his wife from "the milliner's at Geneva," a set piece that is followed by an obviously lively vocal duet.”
“We see Kassim rollick with his new half-American child, who worships him, "My Daddy is stronger than your Daddy!”
“Yes, it was hypocritical of Sarah Palin to pretend that she likes to gussy herself up at thrift stores and make shoes out of moose remains then rollick around in the empress's new clothes.”
“- Sam, the "hero" of Brazil, staving off the evil bureaucracy by playing their own game, as gotten by rollick.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rollick’.
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
raad, rabanna, rabbet, rabble, Rabelaisian, rabic, racemation, raceme, racemiferous, rach, rachidian, rachiometer and 514 more...
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Ick!
Inspired by madmouth's Ugh! list.
brick, quick, airsick, lick, rollick, click, crick, kick, candlestick, cowlick, Toothpick, ickle and 17 more...
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FTL
Words listed first by me that don't belong in any other list.
licit, precis, mnemosyne, badinage, mariposa, lepidoptera, coruscation, poignant, meme, oxymoron, xenophobia, asterism and 128 more...
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Dewitful
visions of witfulness and vision - a wise guise
revision, advisor, ideal, witty, witness, veda, druid, penguin, hadal, idea, story, history and 269 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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Naughty Naughty
gyrate, torrid, by-blow, paramour, cuckold, salacious, philander, john thomas, uxorious, lithe, skivvies, coquet and 56 more...
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verb
revel, stagger, vex, swipe, pounce, delve, gambol, romp, rollick, cavort, frolic, rave and 7 more...
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the martian chron
valise, rime, Lazarus, fount, sprocket, okapi, agate, prow, flange, centrifugal pump, russet, bellows and 69 more...
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Move
drift, pounce, seethe, dash, strew, rove, flung, unleash, flourish, stagger, flounce, scoot and 11 more...
Tweets
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oroboros "the buoys that rollick in the bay
they show the way, they show the way..." Dec 20, 2006