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FROLICKED

Definition: FROLICKED

FROLICKED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Frolic

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FROLICKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)


Crosswords: FROLICKED

English words defined with "FROLICKED": cavortdisportfrisk, frolicgambollark, lark aboutrollick, romp, run aroundskylark, sport. (references)

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Usage Frequency: FROLICKED

"FROLICKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "FROLICKED" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)83.33%10111,207
Lexical Verb (past participle)8.33%1339,140
Noun (proper)8.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%12N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FROLICKED

Language Translations for "FROLICKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

嬉戏 (Frolicking, Playful, romp, Romped, Romping, sportive). (various references)

   

German

  

trieb Possen. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mókázik (lark, to frolic, to jest, to joke, to lark, to play the giddy goat, to rollick, to skylark), csintalankodik (to frolic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olickedfray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: FROLICKED

Misspellings

"FROLICKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frolick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FROLICKED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-i-k-l-o-r"

-1 letter: cordlike, firelock, flockier.

-2 letters: defrock, fickler, flicked, flicker, flocked, frocked, rodlike.

-3 letters: clerid, coifed, coiled, coiler, colder, corked, dicker, docile, docker, fickle, florid, foiled, folder, folkie, forced, forked, frolic, keloid, licked, licker, locked, locker, recoil, redock, refold, relock, ricked, rifled, rocked, roiled, rolfed.

-4 letters: ceorl, cider, clerk, coder, coked, coled, cored, credo, cried, decor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FROLICKED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 52 4F 4C 49 43 4B 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-.    ---    .-..    ..    -.-.    -.-    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010010 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#82 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 004F 004C 0049 0043 004B 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

405249464337453938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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