larksomeadj.
/ˈlɑːksəm/ colloquial.
Given to ‘larking’, sportive.
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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
1871 Daily News 11 Sept. Hinting..that the melodrama had not been produced for larksome purposes.
1890 Longman's Mag. Sept. 574 Obstreperous and larksome ghosts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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adj.1871- unto purpose
- unto so mickle
- unto the etc utterance
- unto the gardenward
- unto the hard
- unto the outmost
- unto the outrance
- unto the palaceward
- unto the plain
- unto the such utterance
- unto the utterance
- unto the world
- unto world
- unto-come
- untoasted
- untobrittened
- untochered
- untocome
- untodealed
- untodealing
- untodealingly
- untofore
- untogether
- untogetherness
- untoggle