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单词 rollick
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rollickn.

Brit. /ˈrɒlɪk/, U.S. /ˈrɑlɪk/
Forms: 1800s rollock, 1800s– rollick.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rollick v.
Etymology: < rollick v.
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.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈrɒlɪk/, U.S. /ˈrɑlɪk/
Forms: 1700s rolich, 1700s–1800s rolloch, 1800s rollok, 1800s– rollick, 1800s– rollock.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by blending. Etymons: romp v., frolic v.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a blend of romp v. and frolic v.Earliest recorded in Scots in form rolloch (as implied by the adjective forms rolloching , rollochin : see rollicking adj.). Perhaps compare also English regional (northern) rallack recorded in sense ‘to romp; to run after pleasure instead of attending to business’ from the second half of the 18th cent. (see Eng. Dial. Dict. at Rallack).
1.
a. intransitive. To frolic or sport in a joyous fashion; to romp. Also with about, around.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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