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Definition of Frolicsome
1. Adjective. Given to merry frolicking. "Frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes"
Similar to: Playful
Derivative terms: Frolicsomeness, Sportiveness
Definition of Frolicsome
1. a. Full of gayety and mirth; given to pranks; sportive.
Definition of Frolicsome
1. Adjective. Given to frolicking; playful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frolicsome
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frolicsome
Literary usage of Frolicsome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1903)
"The frolicsome Four. "THE frolicsome FOUR/' by Edith L. and Ariadne Gilbert, is
a merry little book of child adventures. The two sisters and two brothers ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"They swim alternately on their sides and backs, and dive in the most frolicsome
mood. After indulging in these exercises, they again join their companions ..."
3. Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life by Joseph Tinker Buckingham (1852)
"... the PALLADIUM came, — Old enough to be tame, wild enough to be Young, — And,
with smiles at command, and heart in his hand, Took a frolicsome stand, ..."
4. On Some of Life's Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings; What Makes by William James (1900)
"... the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening; The stretch afar growing
dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite store-houses by the ..."
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