单词 | rollick |
释义 | rollickn. 1. A romp, an escapade. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > a frolic oliprancec1390 ragerya1393 vague1523 rex1566 friskin1570 gambol1573 reak1573 prank1576 vagary1588 whirligig1589 caper1592 prinkum-prankum1596 firk1611 frolica1635 carryings-on1663 ramp1696 romp1713 freak1724 scheme1758 rig1782 lark1811 escapade1814 gammock1819 gambade1821 enfantillage1827 game1828 shines1830 rollick1834 rusty1835 high jinksa1845 escapado1849 shenanigan1855 rum-tum1876 panta1901 gas1914 1834 Fraser's Mag. May 586/1 This was a hunting day! Choice sport, too! Such a rollock! 1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 7 Once my life was a child's rollick, half trick, half dream. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vi. 64 The English fin-de-semaine , when spent in sufficiently rural surroundings, was of an inspissated gloom, a tenebriferous melancholy, that made Strindberg's studies of demented lighthouse-keepers seem regular rollicks. 1939 Musical Times 80 278/2 Bang goes another half-hour that might better have been devoted..to enjoying myself in piano-duet rollicks with Haydn. 2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 154 Therese Riordan's Inventing Beauty (Broadway) is a pleasurable rollick through the history of the innovations that make all the fashion madness possible. 2. Exuberant joviality; sprightliness, merriment. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [noun] dreamOE man-dreamOE gleea1200 galec1200 bauderyc1386 oliprancec1390 cheera1393 gaynessc1400 disportc1405 joyousitiea1450 festivitya1500 lakea1500 gaiety1573 merriment1574 jucundity1575 galliardise?1577 jouissance1579 merrymake1579 jolliment1590 mirth1591 jollyhead1596 spleen1598 jocantry16.. geniality1609 jovialty1621 jocundry1637 gaietry1650 sport1671 fun1726 galliardism1745 gig1777 merrymaking1779 hilarity1834 rollick1852 1852 E. Maturin Bianca i. 7 The unexampled diligence we made in our examinations of the City of Dublin, for the purpose of rollick and fun. 1886 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 420 This snatch,..in its mixture of sentiment, truth, and what may be excusably called ‘rollick’, is very characteristic of its author. 1925 H. Walker Eng. Satire & Satirists i. 6 The metres are of a lyric type, and some of the pieces have the rollick of the Goliards. 1982 J. Stein & G. Plimpton Edie xxix. 301 Freshness and proportion and a sense of the sort of rollick of life. 3. A sprightly, jovial, or vivacious aspect or tone. rare. ΚΠ 1864 W. G. Wills Wife's Evid. 115/2 His countenance was high-featured and sanguine, with a certain grave rollick in it. 1934 N.Y. Times 25 Oct. 25/4 A square-shouldered woman of 60 with a constant chuckle in her throat and a rollick in her gait. 2003 A. Kempton Boogaloo (2005) iv. 94 A distinctive rollick in the rhythms native to the city's raucous music culture was calling a generation of white kids to play. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rollickv. 1. a. intransitive. To frolic or sport in a joyous fashion; to romp. Also with about, around. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)] floxec1200 ragea1275 to dance antics1545 rig1570 to keep (also play) reaks1573 wanton1582 wantonize1592 frolic1593 wantonize1611 hoit1613 mird?c1625 to play about1638 freak1663 romp1665 rump1680 ramp1735 jinket1742 skylark1771 to cut up1775 rollick1786 hoity-toity1790 fun1802 lark1813 gammock1832 haze1848 marlock1863 train1877 horse1901 mollock1932 spadger1939 grab-ass1957 1786 [implied in: 'Merry Andrew at Tamtallan' Anc. & Mod. Hist. Buck-Haven (new ed.) ii. 9 Now Wise Willie had a daughter, called Roliching [?1780, etc. Rolicouching]Jenny, because she spoke thick, six words at three times, half sense and half nonsense. (at rollicking adj. 1)]. 1823 [implied in: J. Wilson Fire-eater vii. 192 If heaven would give every year but one fortnight's rollicking! (at rollicking n. 1)]. a1837 J. Clare in Notes & Queries (1903) 9th Ser. 11 177/1 The wind is rollicking about to-day. Wild, but not stormy. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Sept. 3/2 ‘Q.’ appears as a rollicking humourist... He rollicks, perhaps, a little too laboriously. 1920 M. Beerbohm And even Now 308 Humour may rollick on high planes of fantasy or in depths of silliness. 1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 166 All this coming away and leaving him in that dreary place while I rollick in heaven. 1948 I. Gershwin Weekend in Country in Compl. Lyrics (1993) 360/1 As on the grassy green we frolic—Mid the fields of rye we rollick—Give me a rye that's alcoholic Frolicking at a bar. 2006 A. Wright Carpentaria ix. 277 The expectation of seeing his little children rollicking around as they always did gave him pleasure. b. intransitive. With along, on, through, etc. To progress in a boisterous, lively fashion. ΚΠ 1818 Lady Morgan Florence Macarthy II. i. 9 Their less consequential countrymen were deaf to the orders of their captain-commandant, and went, as he termed it, ‘rollicking on’, till overtaken by Jemmy Bryan. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 2 Aug. (1939) 211 Instead of writing one other page.., you rollick into the woods till you have not a dry thread about you. 1846 T. B. Thorpe Myst. Backwoods 13 Mounted by a rider..he [sc. the mustang pony] goes rollicking ahead. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. xiv. 344 The shrieks of his lute rose shrill..and rollicked on swifter and swifter as the old singer maddened. 1996 Raygun Nov. 94 These good-ol' boys rollick through 14 ‘hits’ here in Cherubic quintessence. 2. intransitive. To revel in something. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > take joy or delight in [verb (transitive)] delightc1230 to have joy of1297 joyc1330 enjoy1462 delect1510 to enjoy of?1521 lustc1540 revel1592 luxuriate1653 rollick1848 wallow1876 thrill1935 1848 Eclectic Mag. Nov. 343/1 Following out an idea into all its most fantastic ramifications, rollicking in the fun of the thing. 1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xxix There was something desperately amusing to him in the thought that he had not even money enough to..provide for a repast. He rollicked in his present poverty. 1912 N. W. Durham Hist. City Spokane I. 468 The crowd was fairly rollicking in the universal sentiment of booster unity. 1953 Jrnl. Relig. 33 201/2 He has a field day rollicking in the paralogistic and self-contradictory elements of certain logical-positivistic attacks upon metaphysics. 2004 Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Sun (Nexis) 17 Apr. 1 (caption) Chyloe and a bevy of countrified beauties rollicking in their rural Alberta roots. Derivatives ˈrollicker n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] > frolicker wantonc1450 friskera1549 a merry (or mad) grig1566 friskin1596 uptails1602 gamester1616 romp1678 romper?1780 frolicker1801 skylarker1818 larker1826 rollicker1837 larrikin1868 rompster1893 jive-ass1964 1837 T. T. Stoddart Angling Reminisc. ix. 139 A boisterous rollicker, Jack, agile as Harlequin; tame him, tame him. 1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 19 Oct. It is the same..with the ragged, hungry little folk of the western isles as with the romping rollickers of Glasgow. 1969 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 13 Sept. 1/8 ‘Jackson’, with Mrs. Cash, is a gusty rollicker, livelier than Nancy Sinatra's and more believable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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