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rollicking1 adjectiverollicking2 noun rollickingrol‧lick‧ing1 /ˈrɒlɪkɪŋ $ ˈrɑː-/ adjective [only before noun] old-fashioned rollickingOrigin: 1800-1900 rollick ‘to have noisy fun’ (19-20 centuries), perhaps from romp + frolic - Everyone was in a circle now, dancing to a rollicking tune played by the small band, and changing partners.
- His Hal would be no rollicking dropout.
- It is a rollicking mock-heroic farce that burlesques the affectations of Restoration and post-Restoration heroic drama with all its bombast and extravagance.
- The Kirk's answer to the rollicking rabbis was of course Revd James Currie.
- The stained-glass knights and their ladies looked down their noses at us rollicking serfs.
- They played it as a duet, perfectly teamed, at the fast pace the piece demanded, rollicking and dramatic.
- This is all good rollicking fun, though never quite clean.
noisy and cheerful: a rollicking songrollicking1 adjectiverollicking2 noun rollickingrollicking2 noun give somebody a rollicking British English informal to criticize someone angrily for something they have done |