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▪ I. ˈromping, vbl. n.
[f. romp v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb; boisterous play.
1711Steele Spect. No. 145 ⁋6 His Pleasantry consists in Romping. 1731–8Swift Pol. Conv. 56, I have torn my Petticoat with your odious Romping. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 27 She loved romping. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 135 The period that ushers in the carnival with rompings in the streets.
▪ II. ˈromping, ppl. a.
[f. romp v. + -ing2.]
1. Of persons: That romps; engaged in, or given to, romping.
1711Steele Spect. No. 187 ⁋3 The Air she gave herself was that of a Romping Girl. 1810Sir A. Boswell Edinb. Poet. Wks. (1871) 53 There, romping miss the rounded slate may drop, And kick it out with persevering hop. 1869Trollope He knew, etc. xlvii. (1878) 260 Simply a romping girl, hardly more than a year or two beyond her teens.
fig.1839–52Bailey Festus 253 Thine eyes are like two romping stars. 1887Hall Caine Deemster vi, And so five tearing, romping years went by.
2. Of actions, etc.: Having the character of a romp or romps.
1802M. Edgeworth Fr. Governess Wks. 1832 III. 180 Miss Fanshawe, in a romping manner, pulled the paper out of her hands. 1835Politeness & Gd.-breeding 48 Avoid all romping tricks. 1890‘L. Falconer’ Mademoiselle Ixe iv, [She] listened respectfully to a denunciation of lawn tennis as a romping and unfeminine pastime.
Hence ˈrompingly adv. (Webster, 1864). |