frolicly

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adverb

In a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adverbfrolicly (comparative more frolicly, superlative most frolicly)

comparative more frolicly · superlative most frolicly

  1. obsoleteIn a frolicsome manner; gaily or joyfully.

    After some dys frolicly spent at Bath, he returned to his former temper

    1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater
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    Comming to ſee you, I was ſet upon, / I and my men, as we were ſinging frolickly, / Not dreaming of an ambuſh of baſe rogues, / Set on ith' forreſt, [...]

    c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 74, column 2

    But, from a banquet that the Gods have blest In men whose spirits are frolicly inclin'd, Perform those rights that propagate thy kind.

    1858, Richard Hooper (translator), Homer (original), Batrachomyomachia

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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