frolic

frolic englannista suomeksi

1. hulluttelu, ilonpito

2. temmeltää, ilotella, karkeloida

0. Verbi

1. temmeltää, kisailla, ilotella, karkeloida

1. Substantiivi

2. temmellys, kisailu

frolic englanniksi

1. Merry, joyous, full of mirth; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief. (defdate)

2. 1645, (w), “L'Allegro|L’Allegro” in ''Milton's 1645 Poems|Poems'', London: Humphrey Moseley, p. 31,https://archive.org/details/poemsbothenglish00miltuoft

The frolick wind that breathes the Spring,

''Zephyr'' with ''Aurora'' playing,

As he met her once a Maying

There on Beds of Violets blew,

3. 1682, (w), “Of Love” in ''Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons'', London: H. Herringman, 5th edition, 1686, p. 73,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67346.0001.001

For women, born to be controul’d,

Stoop to the forward and the bold,

Affect the haughty and the proud,

The gay, the frollick, and the loud.

4. (quote-text)

5. Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.

6. To merry; to fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. (defdate)

(ux)

7. To cause to be merry.

8. Gaiety; merriment. (defdate)

9. 1832-1888, Louisa May Alcott

the annual jubilee (..) filled the souls of old and young with visions of splendour, frolic and fun.

10. 2012 (original 1860), Nathaniel Hawthorne, ''The Marble Faun - Page 276'':

By the old-fashioned magnificence of this procession, it might worthily have included his Holiness in person, with a suite of attendant Cardinals, if those sacred dignitaries would kindly have lent their aid to heighten the frolic of the Carnival.

11. A playful antic.

12. 1680, (w), ''Art of Poetry''

He would be at his frolic once again.

13. A social gathering.

14. (quote-book)