FROLICKING

Definition: FROLICKING

FROLICKING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Frolic

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "FROLICKING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Crosswords: FROLICKING

English words defined with "FROLICKING": coltish ♦ frolicky, frolicsome ♦ rollicking ♦ Skylarking, sportive. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. River otters can be seen frolicking in salt marsh creeks as well as the freshwater rivers of South Carolina. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Its gaiety is of the thunderbolt, and its frolicking holds a sceptre.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"FROLICKING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "FROLICKING" is used about 13 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	84.62%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	7.69%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	7.69%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "FROLICKING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		嬉戏 (Frolicked, Playful, romp, Romped, Romping, sportive). (various references)

Finnish		kirmailu. (various references)

French		batifolage. (various references)

German		Possen treibend. (various references)

Hungarian		mulatás (bend, buster, carousal, gay life, high jinks, marry-making), csintalankodás. (various references)

Pig Latin		olickingfray

Romanian		zbenguialã (fiskiness, Frisk, frolic, gambol, gamboling, riot). (various references)

Scottish		mireagaich. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"FROLICKING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: frolicing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "FROLICKING" (pronounced frÄ"liking)
7	-r Ä" l i k i ng	rollicking.
4	-i k i ng	mimicking, panicking, trafficking.
3	-k i ng	aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nitpicking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, politicking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-f-g-i-i-k-l-n-o-r"
	-2 letters: flicking, flocking, frocking, rockling.
	-3 letters: coifing, coiling, corking, foiling, forcing, forking, licking, ligroin, locking, ricking, rifling, rocking, roiling, rolfing.
	-4 letters: coking, congii, coring, filing, firing, firkin, florin, frolic, irking, ironic, liking, oiling, origin, ricing, riling.
	-5 letters: cling, clink, clonk, coign, colin, corgi, ficin, flick, fling, flock, flong, frock, giron, gonif, groin, icing, incog, ionic.
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