Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a frolicsome manner; with wild gaiety.

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  • adverb In a frolicsome manner.

Etymologies

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frolicsome +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Grandfather and the children were already outside and the goats were awaiting him, shaking their heads frolicsomely in the fresh morning air, while the children stroked them and wished them a pleasant journey up the mountain.

    Heidi 2000

  • Mr. Strumley leaped from his bed to the bath-tub, and fluttered frolicsomely in the crystal tide.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • But when she lifted up the veil, two boys sprang out from under it, and frolicsomely sported to and fro; while Wilhelm and the Amazon proceeded hand in hand across the garden; and noticed in the distance Mariana and his father walking in an alley, which was formed of lofty trees, and seemed to go quite round the garden.

    Chapter I. Book VII 1917

  • “Capital!” she exclaimed, throwing down the letter frolicsomely.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • "Capital!" she exclaimed, throwing down the letter frolicsomely.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • There has the white snow frolicsomely strown itself, till all that vast, outstretched distance glittered like a mirror in which only the heavens were reflected, and among these drifts our steps have been curbed.

    Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Margaret Fuller 1830

  • CB Musk Reinvention seemed so frolicsomely saucy, like a Rubenesque woman who's letting you peek at more than you should.

    Perfume Posse Lee 2010

  • CB Musk Reinvention seemed so frolicsomely saucy, like a Rubenesque woman who's letting you peek at more than you should.

    Perfume Posse 2010

  • CB Musk Reinvention seemed so frolicsomely saucy, like a Rubenesque woman who's letting you peek at more than you should.

    Perfume Posse 2010

  • CB Musk Reinvention seemed so frolicsomely saucy, like a Rubenesque woman who's letting you peek at more than you should.

    Perfume Posse Lee 2010

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