rompishadj.

1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. iii. i. 22 I must not be so Rompish before Jaques, I'le set my Mouth in Prim.

1709 W. King Useful Trans. in Philos. Jan.–Feb. 37 The Dance was something Rompish.

1751 tr. Lett. Ninon de Lenclos xii. 53 Lively, rompish, trifling, absolute, and determined, it is impossible but she must cut out a great deal of Work for you.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Rompish, inclined to rough play.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. at Ramp A creature is ramp that is rompish inclined.

1891 Sat. Rev. 14 Feb. 195/1 A rompish young personage.

1920 L. Garis Girl Scouts at Bellaire ii. 14 Mrs. Dunbar was a beautiful woman, just young enough, rompish enough, and wise enough to get a very good time out of life.

1992 S. Johnson Sinful (1993) xiv. 110 Rompish in light-footed excitement for a few steps, they broke into a congruent trot and moved with a rhythmic symmetry down the drive.

1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 142 That frank communicative knowledge, before which, the thoughts run rompishly loose.

1887 Harper's Mag. Mar. 620/1 I noticed that my relative would now and then cast an uneasy glance at the group, who were talking and laughing a little rompishly.

1976 Musical Times 117 155/1 It was the sly Dulcamara of Geraint Evans, British opera's most irrepressible and irreplaceable natural resource, that brought the evening rompishly to life.

2006 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 26 Mar. 74 The plot is hysterically, rompishly outlandish, but she has a sharp eye for the extreme silliness of humans.