rollickingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈrɒl.ɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈrɑː.lɪ.kɪŋ/old-fashionedhappy, energetic, and often noisy:
The play is described as "a rollicking tale about love and lust".
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Causing pleasure
- agreeable
- all things to all people idiom
- attractive
- banging
- be better than sex idiom
- brighten
- do sb the world of good idiom
- dreamy
- ducky
- enchant
- engaging
- jolly
- keep on the right side of sb idiom
- keep sb sweet idiom
- knock
- leafy
- lighten
- lovely
- quench
- tickle
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rollickingnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈrɒl.ɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈrɑː.lɪ.kɪŋ/UK informalan occasion when someone tells you in a very angry way that you have done something wrong:
We got a rollicking from the coach at half time.
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Chastising & rebuking
- admonition
- barracking
- bawl
- be in sb's face idiom
- beat yourself up
- bring
- come down on sb like a ton of bricks idiom
- dressing-down
- keelhaul
- lambaste
- lay
- neck
- rebuke
- reprimand
- reproachful
- there'll be hell to pay idiom
- throw
- throw the book at sb idiom
- tirade
- upbraid
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