- obsolete. The word
larrikin was a
dialect term
meaning "mischievous or
frolicsome youth"
originating from the West
Midlands region of
England (particularly...
- leap in a
frolicsome way, and
probably derives from capriole,
which derives from the
Latin for goat (Capra). The noun
caper means a
frolicsome leap, a capricious...
- disciplinarian, was
demonstratively affectionate, and his
mother displa**** a
frolicsome side with her
children that
belied her
austere public image. She was amused...
-
exasperated with
Maria for
being a "flibbertigibbet"; they say that she is
frolicsome for the
decorous and
austere life at the Abbey. The
titular question is...
- Post. The
announcement of a trip by the Anti-Bell-Ringing
Society (a "
frolicsome group"
according to Read)
received attention from the
Boston papers. Charles...
- made the role "completely his own, emotional, magnetic, canny,
often frolicsome" and that is "a
shame is that so few will see his HiddleHamlet." He reprised...
- New
Yorker was less enthused,
calling the film "trite" and
containing "
frolicsome humor that is not contagious."[verification needed] The film was nominated...
-
while its
brief season of po****rity lasts,
throws a dash of fun and
frolicsomeness over the
existence of
squalid poverty and ill-requited labour, and gives...
-
innocent bystander, the sea
otter epitomized the role of
victim ... cute and
frolicsome sea
otters suddenly in distress, oiled, frightened, and dying, in a losing...
- Gr**** the
Nobel Prize in Literature,
praising him as a
writer "whose
frolicsome black fables portray the
forgotten face of history". Gr**** was born in...
