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larky, a. colloq.|ˈlɑːkɪ|
[f. lark n.2 + -y.]
a. Inclined or ready for a lark; frolicsome, sportive.
1841Punch 25 Dec. 278/2 The old girl has her two nieces home for the holidays—devilish handsome, larky girls. 1851H. Mayo Pop. Superst. (ed. 2) 133 When the Devil is larky, he solicits the witches to dance round him. 1866Spectator 24 Nov. 1301/1 An under-bred, ignorant, larky young naval lieutenant. 1885‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 24, ‘I look larky, don't I’, said poor Tweddle, dolefully. 1909[see buck v.7 2 a]. 1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby ii. 35 The young people..are loud and larky and irreverent. 1912D. H. Lawrence Lett. (1932) 28 Every blessed place was full of men, in the larkiest of spirits. 1958Vogue July 57 Osborne has shocked the stage with a real-life genus of larky lower-middle class humanists and given them the heroic status of being worried. 1967Listener 8 June 747/2 A character in whom humility and submissiveness are combined with a larky humour. 1974Ibid. 21 Nov. 673/1 The only disk jockey who sounds genuinely happy... Larky, insouciant and very funny.
b. transf.
1925Blackw. Mag. July 80/2 (Rugby School) The ‘swells’ were allowed to wear ‘larky’ waistcoats, i.e., waistcoats of various hues often with flowery designs embroidered on them. |