horseplayn.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > art of horse-riding > theatrical
horseplaya1627
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 39 Horse play at fourscore is not so ready.
a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) v. i. 62 2 Cheat. We have a Play wherein we use a horse. Sym. Fellows, you use no horse-play in my house.
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love i. ii. 11 They get upon their Gennits, and prance before their Ladies windows... And this horse-play they call making love.
2. Rough, coarse, or boisterous play, passing the bounds of propriety.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun]
rampinga1425
daffing1535
May game1571
horseplay1590
hoiting1594
wantonizing1598
roguery1611
romperinga1625
hoity-toity1668
frolicking1676
frolic1677
romping1694
wantoning1701
vagary1791
skylarking1809
larking1813
rollicking1823
high-jinking1891
shenaniganning1924
grab-ass1948
mollocking1959
bants2008
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. C I am a stranger, & cannot tel what your horse play meanes.
1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Dij He [Collier] is too much given to Horse-play in his Raillery.
1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1327 No awkward overturns of glasses, plates, and salt-cellars; no horse-play.
1856 D. Masson Ess. Biogr. & Crit. iv. 121 Dryden's best comic attempts were but heavy horse-play.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) vi. 149 Explosions of animal spirits, bordering at times upon horse-play.
Derivatives
horseplayish adj. given to horseplay.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adjective]
ramping1484
rampish1530
frolic?1548
prankya1556
hoiting1594
tricksy1598
tida1641
frolickish1660
romping1662
hoity-toity1690
rompish1696
frolicsome1699
friskful1728
highty-tighty1737
frolicky1748
prankish1776
rollicking1786
prankfula1795
pranksome1810
tricksome1815
espiègle1816
larkish1823
skylarking1826
larking1828
rompy1838
larky1841
rollicksome1841
Pucklike1845
rollicky1846
frolicful1848
larksome1871
puckish1874
horseplayish1882
frolicking1887
tricksical1889
shenaniganning1924
1882 Daily News 22 Sept. 2/1 The younger men were somewhat horse-playish in their behaviour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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