Frolicsome

Definition: Frolicsome

Frolicsome

Adjective

1. Given to merry frolicking; "frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes".

Date "frolicsome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Frolicsome

Synonyms: coltish (adj), frolicky (adj), rollicking (adj), sportive (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cheerfulness	Playful, playsome; folatre, playful as a kitten, tricksy, frisky, frolicsome; gamesome; jocose, jocular, waggish; mirth loving, laughter-loving; mirthful, rollicking.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Frolicsome

English words defined with "frolicsome": Curlycue ♦ Feather-heeled, Friskful, Frolicful, Frolicly ♦ Gamesome, Gamester ♦ Kiddyish ♦ Rollic ♦ Sportful. (references)

Specialty definitions using "frolicsome": APPLE-PYE BED ♦ WAGGISH. (references)

Etymologies containing "frolicsome": frolicky, Frolicly ♦ Larrikin. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Frolicsome pets. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Frolicsome" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Frolicsome" is used about 2 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "frolicsome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		plot gjallëri (ebullient, effervescent, frolic, live), i gëzueshëm (cheerful, cheery, festal, festive, frolic, gleeful, hilarious, joyful, mirthful), dëfryes (amusing, entertaining). (various references)

Arabic		‏مزوح (humorous, jocular, waggish), ‏مازح (banter, fool around with, jest with, jocular, joke, tease), ‏مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, lively, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), ‏سامر, ‏عابث (frivolous, pixie, pixy, sporty, trifling). (various references)

Bulgarian		веселив, игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, mischievous, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton). (various references)

Chinese		调皮. (various references)

Czech		dovádivý. (various references)

Dutch		schalks (airy-fairy, frolic, petulant), ondeugend (airy-fairy, frolic, petulant), dartel (airy-fairy, frolic, mischievous, petulant, playful). (various references)

Esperanto		petola (frolic, petulant). (various references)

Faeroese		kátur (adroit, agile, airy-fairy, alert, brisk, cheerful, frolic, gay, keen, merry, petulant). (various references)

French		folâtre (frisky), malin (frolic), espiègle, enjoué, badin. (various references)

German		ausgelassen (airy-fairy, boisterous, frisky, frolic, hilarious, hilariously, left out, lewd, lively, mad, petulant, playful, rackety, rollicking, understood, wild, wreaked), lustig (amusing, blithe, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, droll, funny, gay, happy, hilarious, humorous, jocular, jocularly, jocund, jocundly, jolly, jovial, lazy, merry, pert, sportive). (various references)

Greek		παιγνιδιάρικοσ, παιγνιδιάρησ (frolicky, playful, prankish). (various references)

Hebrew		מפזז, עליז (blithe, cheerful, festal, frisky, frolic, gay, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, joyful, light hearted, merry, mirthful, playful, sprightly). (various references)

Hungarian		mókás (dorky, jocose, rollicking, sportive), bolondos kedvű. (various references)

Italian		cattivo (airy-fairy, bad, evil, foul, frolic, ill, ill natured, mad, malicious, miserable, nasty, naughty, perverse, petulant, poor, spiteful, unkind, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Korean		장난스러운 (mischievous). (various references)

Manx		reagh (amorous, blithe, frisky, lecherous, mirthful, playful, randy, sportive), gammanagh (bantering, playful, sportive, sporty). (various references)

Pig Latin		olicsomefray

Portuguese		traquinas (elicit, elysium, frolic, monkey, petulant), gracejar (banter, drollery, fib, have fun, jape, jest, joke, Josh, kid, larksome, tease, trifle), divertido (amused, amusing, canty, diverting, droll, enjoyable, entertaining, funny, gander, gay, hilarity, jolly, larksome, laughable, merry, mirthful, playful, screaming, sportful, sportive, waggish), alegre (alive, blithe, blithesome, bonny, boon, breezy, brisk, buoyant, buxom, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, coltish, convivial, Corky, divertissement, entertainment, exhilarated, fester, festively, gamesome, gay, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, holiday maker, jaunty, jocular, jocundity, jolly, joviality, joyful, joyous, jubilant, larkspur, laughing, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, merry, mirthful, peart, resilient, slaphappy, sportful, sportive, sprightly, tipsy, vivid, volatile, winsome). (various references)

Romanian		zglobiu (fleet, lively), zburdalnic (frisky, frolic, hoity toity, larky, sportive, sprightly), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), nebunatic (devil may care, frisky, hoity toity, larky, wanton), jucãuş (dancer, jocose, kittenish, lambent, playful, prankish, rolling, skittish, wanton). (various references)

Russian		игривый (coltish, gamesome, hoity toity, jocose, jocular, playful, skittish, sportive). (various references)

Scottish		iollagach (gay). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		šaljiv (facetious, humorous, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, waggish). (various references)

Spanish		travieso (across, athwart, high-spirited, impish, mischievous, naughty, playful, prankish, puckish, roguish, wanton, wayward, wilful, willful), retozón (coltish, frisky, kittenish, rollicking), juguetón (frisky, kittenish, mischievous, playful, puckish, sportive, wanton). (various references)

Swedish		sprallig (frisky, frolic, slaphappy), munter (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, frolic, gay, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jocose, jocund, jolly, merry, mirthful, sprightly), lekfull (frisky, frolic, gamesome, kittenish, playful, rompish, skittish, sportive). (various references)

Thai		ร่าเริง ((as) happy as a lark, exuberant, gleeful, jaunty, jolly, lively, spunk up). (various references)

Turkish		oynak (coquettish, flirtatious, frisky, loose, ludic, mobile, playful, skittish, unstable), eğlence meraklısı, şen (blithe, breezy, cheerful, cheery, convivial, eupeptic, gay, gleeful, jaunty, jocund, jolly, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, sportive). (various references)

Ukrainian		грайливй. (various references)

Vietnamese		thích vui nhộn (frolicky), hay nô đùa (frolic, frolicky). (various references)

Welsh		drwg (bad, evil, frolic, harm, hurt, miserable, nasty, naughty, petulant, poor, wicked). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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

Words rhyming with "frolicsome" (pronounced 'Frol"ic*some'): Actinosome, Adventuresome, Awesome, Awsome, Baenosome, Blithesome, Bothersome, Brightsome, Burdensome, Centrosome, Cephalosome, Chromosome, Cumbersome, Darksome, fulsome, Furthersome, Fusome, Gainsome, Galsome, Gamesome, Gaysome, Gladsome, Gleesome, handsome, irksome, Liefsome, Lifesome, lightsome, lithesome, loathsome, lonesome, Longsome, lovesome, meddlesome, Merosome, Metasome, mettlesome, Mirksome, Noisome, Overburdensome, Perisome, Pithsome, Playsome, Poisonsome, Prothyalosome, Pyrosome, Quarrelsome, Quietsome, Roomsome, Spherosome. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-l-m-o-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: coliforms.
	-2 letters: coliform, colorism, miscolor.
	-3 letters: coeloms, coilers, comfier, coolers, coolies, cormels, creosol, filmers, floosie, foliose, formols, frolics, locoism, moilers, orioles, recoils, refilms, roomies.
	-4 letters: celoms, ceorls, climes, closer, coelom, coiler, colies, colors, comers, comose, cooers, cooler, coolie, cormel, cosier, cresol, crimes, fermis, ficoes, filers, filmer, filose, fliers, flooie, floors, folios, forces, formes, formic.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-l-m-o-o-r-s"
	+4 letters: discomfortable.
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